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OF IMMORAL THINKING. 



Admonitions of a Young 
Man to Himself 



By John Smith , ^ju^kJ^ 



A. W. FARRELL, 

3628 Washington Avenue, 
St. Louis, Mo. 

Publisher and Sole Distributor. 
The publication of this book will be perpetual. 






Copyright, 1920, 

By A. W. Farrell 

St. Louis, Mo. 



JAN 3! 1921 



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IN SUPPORT OF THE PRICE 

The original loose leaf, type-written book cost 
<£ the author several hundred dollars in loss of 
business to pen and $50.00 to dictate to a public 
stenographer — simply as a single addition to his 
library. He has found it worth this much and 
more each time he has reread it, which has been 
no less than 21 times in 7 years. He was requested 
by many friends to whom he loaned the book to 
publish same for the benefit of young people (and 
maybe some old ones). 

Therefore, if the book proves beneficial to 
young boys and girls, it must be made self- 
supporting and perpetuated. Enough must be 
realized out of each edition to pay for printing a 
larger one and liberally pay those who advertise 
and distribute the copies. If this were published 
in a cheap 75c form and quality it would not be 
respected, appreciated and valued by any owner. 
The book should be sold at $10.00 per copy to 
make people properly respect it. The price of 
$3.50 is sufficiently reasonable considering adver- 
tising expense and the fact that many copies 
will be given free to poor boys and girls. Any 
excess profits realized will be spent to help save 
the lives of babies; cure, support and educate 
poor, sick and crippled children, 12% million of 
whom are dying yearly under 6 years of age and 
another 12% million before the age of 16. This 
condition on earth should be improved. It would 
be a commendable way for anyone to use surplus 
profits. Author. 

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THIS BOOK IS WOBTH MOEE THAX A 
BILLION DOLLABS IF YOU CAN UN- 
DEBSTAXD IT AND WILL HEED THE 
SUGGESTIONS 



PEEFACE 

One hundred forty thousand or more people pass 
off the earth each day, never to return in the flesh 
and blood. No one knows what day or week will 
be his last. The average life of man is thirty- 
three years. But one-fourth pass out of the body 
before the age of six and one-half before the age 
of sixteen and only one out of one hundred 
reaches the ripe age of sixty-five or more. We 
plan for a physical life of sixty-five or more and 
support the plans with good health habits, but 
man is too easily killed to bank on living sixty- 
five or more years. 

Perhaps if the Author was ten years or so older 
he would be more competent and worthy to give 
this book to the boys and girls of America and 
other countries — but in view of the plain unvar- 
nished facts set forth above, "If you haven't 
taken out any life insurance to be prepared for a 
decent funeral, you had best do it today.' ' He 
has reread the book enough to know that it will 
be valuable in any home for the inspiration and 
influence of young people to be upright, honorable 
and industrious, and be a source of consolation to 
old people — in that it will assure them of some 
more and better "life" after their own funeral 
takes place. 

The author has been both good and bad, mean 
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PREFACE 

and kind. The book was written to himself in a 
period of sincere resolution to follow in the foot- 
steps of men like Lincoln, Washington, Garfield 
and such men, not in fame — far be it from such — 
but in principles, quality, caliber, merit, ability, 
likeableness, praiseworthiness, etc. — to read when 
drifting back into the "line of least resistance," 
morally and otherwise, along with the rest of the 
"fellows." 

If he delays publishing this "written record of 
thots that have a tendency to inspire" until he 
dies or becomes otherwise unable, his name would 
be admonished by the few physical people who per- 
chance would run across the book, and be perhaps, 
rebuked by his departed relatives and acquaint- 
ances if fortunate enough to join them in the Gov- 
vernment Above. In short he shall have failed to 
"do his bit" to help educate the "children of 
earth ' ' and inspire them to greater attainment and 
better citizenship. 

The book is entirely too deep to do anybody 
any good unless read slowly and with under- 
standing, perception and realization as you go. 
It could best be understood if copied word 
for word, many paragraphs memorized and the 
whole book reread at least three times a year. The 
essential revelations were reasoned out while six- 
teen to twenty years of age but enlarged and 
elaborated upon in recorded form later on but 
still several years ago. 

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PREFACE 

If other people have only one-tenth the beauti- 
ful and inspiring thots as the writer after read- 
ing these revelations each time, he shall have 
accomplished more than his vainest wish in pub- 
lishing the book. 

If read frequently enough, you will never grow 
old, just your body gets old and incapacitated. 
Surely herein and without doubt lies the much 
sought Fountain of Youth. 

If the book is neglected for years at a time, you 
will forget every word and revelation in it and 
follow the line of least resistance accordingly. 
However, to read it without fail at least three times 
a year should have the desired effect, but to pon- 
der and dream on the realities indisputably set 
forth on these pages may cause fanaticism, which 
of course is very harmful and undesirable. 

Every time the author finds of takes time to 
read this book, it ushers him, "mind, soul and 
body," into the company, society and presence of 
all characters in history, relatives, friends, ac- 
quaintances and other citizens who have left 
the clay, and irresistibly draws him right back 
into good principles and upright manhood to 
whatever degree he happens to value life at the 
time and fills him with absolute confidence that 
there is a higher and better life coming to or in 
store for the desirable citizen and efficient work- 
man. 

John Smith. 
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ADMONITIONS OF A YOUNG MAN 
TO HIMSELF 



CHAPTER I 

Deliberately create or invent the most powerful 
conception of the invisible magnetic-electric man 
you possibly can. Invent the mechanical magnetic- 
electric instrument void of intelligence, simply 
capable of powerful and positive attraction and 
repulsion. 

Every time you see an electric truck or coupe 
pass, particularly a very heavy truck, one loaded 
with two or three tons of merchandise — please 
observe and try to realize more thoroughly and 
completely each time that there is a very, very 
powerful " motive force" stored somewhere about 
the vehicle. Especially is it very evident when 
the heavy truck moves without hesitancy up a 
steep grade, accomplishing a feat or performance 
equal to the pulling ability of eight or more 
draught horses. You are deeply impressed with 
the indisputable, unquestionable, uncontradictable 
fact and reality of the existence of very real, 
positive and terribly powerful energy located 
somewhere about the machine. 

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You can form a fair and more or less correct 
idea how a steam locomotive creates its powerful 
"motive force" by heating water, and the ex- 
panded steam propels the machinery by the tre- 
mendous pressure against piston heads to seek 
outlet at the exhaust valves; and some idea of the 
gasoline automobile or truck motor's propelling 
force by harnessing the explosions of heated gas- 
oline gas; and some idea of the motive force of 
a street car, seeing the electric current trans- 
mitted continuously from a live wire against 
which a little trolley wheel is held by a strong 
coil spring. But to get a fair and accurate idea 
of the "Electro Motive Force" that impels, com- 
pels or propels a heavy electric truck along a 
bad road or up a steep grade against the power- 
ful resistance of hundreds of pounds of weight, 
freight and gravity — without any trolley wire 
anywhere in the vicinity — will take a little closer 
and more careful observation and study. It 
would be absurd and ridiculous, even laughable, 
to question or doubt the existence of some very 
powerful, real and material motive force stored 
somewhere about the truck or vehicle. 

A young child can see that the truck or ve- 
hicle is being propelled, compelled or forced 
forward (or backward) by a very strong power 
of some character. The little boy or girl would 
admit at once, without question or argument, that 
some kind of very powerful energy is stored or 

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being developed in or underneath the car. The 
more intelligent the boy, girl, man or woman, the 
less they will doubt or question the existence of 
this power or motive force, and if the person is 
interested in the progress of human inventions 
and creations, he or she will study out and real- 
ize, to the best of his or her ability, the nature 
or character of the power and energy that has 
thus replaced two to twenty draught horses on 
each electric automobile or truck. 

An intelligent man, woman, boy or girl does 
not dispute the reality of powerful and terrible 
force when the wind blows fifty or sixty miles 
an hour, in the nature of a hurricane or cyclone. 
They do not doubt or question the existence of a 
powerful and terrible force and moving element, 
but it cannot be seen by the physical eye. Un- 
fortunate isn't it? We might encounter some 
very smart man or woman who would argue that 
the wind does not exist and is not powerful, just 
because they cannot see it with the physical eye, 
yet it can blow over trees and wipe out hundreds 
of heavy buildings in just a few minutes, where 
it would require hundreds of men with hundreds 
of horses and engines a hundred days to do the 
same terrific damage. 

If you never learn another thing on the face 
of Mother Earth, or another thing in your short 
sojourn here, — and whether another single soul 

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learns it, — please learn this: That there is a very, 
very vital, capable, efficient, terrible and tremen- 
dous power stored in a convenient chamber on 
each electric truck and coupe that travels around 
town or over the country each day — but you can- 
not see it with the physical eye. You cannot see 
it enter these storage chambers, nor can you see 
it leave. Under some conditions you can feel it 
with the consciousness conveyed to your mind 
by physical nerves, and unless very careful, you 
will wish you had been satisfied to know of the 
existence of this motive force or terrible power 
by evidences crudely set forth above. You have 
but to touch a positive and negative "pole" of 
the massive storage battery at the same time, to 
burn you quicker and ten times worse than the 
hottest stove you have ever seen heated to a red 
or white heat. It might kill you instantly if the 
battery is large enough and the current very 
strong. 

One way you might see evidence of this treach- 
erous and pitiless, though valuable power, is to 
hold a connection from the negative "pole" close 
to a connection from the positive "pole" and see 
it spit tongues of dangerous fire, like a coiled 
and poisonous serpent with a treacherous flame 
for a tongue, which snaps like a whip in its 
lightning quickness of movement. 

You can actually measure the quantity of this 
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powerful energy in a storage battery with an 
Ammeter. 

This motive force, power or energy yon say 
is called or named " Electricity ;" a substance 
without weight or extension but possessing in- 
destructibility and elasticity, and capable of do- 
ing work manifested by attraction and repulsion. 
It is manufactured from dynamos and conveyed 
by copper wires to various points and sold at so 
much per ampere, volt, watt or horse-power. 

A storage chamber, battery or group of cells 
are prepared to hold 6 volts, 12 volts, 24 volts, 
etc., (60 ampere, 120 ampere, or 240 ampere, re- 
spectively) and proper connection is made to a 
"live wire" and the battery is "charged," am- 
pere by ampere, volt by volt, covering ten to 
fifty hours or more, until it contains or holds its 
full capacity of ampereage or voltage — and no 
more. 

The live or charged battery, or storage cells, 
are then used any place away from the supply 
of electric current and "spent" or exhausted in 
such a manner as to convert or utilize this treach- 
erous and terrible power into "hard labor" or 
"slavery" — and such "slavery" no one knows 
an equal. A sufficient quantity can make a five 
ton truck, loaded to full capacity, climb a hill 
faster than twenty or forty draught horses could 
pull it. You don't see this tremendous power go 

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ADMONITIONS OF A YOUNG MAN TO HIMSELF 

into the storage battery, nor can you see it leav- 
ing, as it is utilized to propel the heavy truck 
or coupe, but if you are in your right mind you 
do not question or doubt the existence of the 
power and you frankly admit that it is very real 
and mighty. 

Now the great drawback or deficiency with 
present storage batteries is their inability to hold 
more than six, twelve, twenty-four, etc., volts of 
current. Each additional number of volts requires 
a still larger and more cumbersome battery, (sub- 
marine for example). 

What we are going to invent now is a storage 
battery containing an element or a solution of 
two or more chemicals which will attract an al- 
most unlimited quantity of electric current; so 
that a battery the size of the present six volt 
chamber will "take in" or receive hundreds of 
volts and thousands of amperes. The current 
then might be called "condensed," "compressed," 
"consolidated" or "liquid" electricity — but the 
best description would be "concentrated" elec- 
tricity. Because the liquid or soluton continues 
to attract more and more electric current until it 
would become a solidified mass or quantity, as far 
as the current was concerned ; or capable of hold- 
ing enough voltage to propel a heavy truck twelve 
hours a day for a year and then be far from ex- 
hausted. You hardly doubt but that quite a little 

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energy or terrific power would thus be contained 
in this little storage chamber, or enough to kill a 
thousand, maybe ten thousand men, if used for 
this purpose. 

But we will do a little more scientific experi- 
menting with this marvelous storage battery than 
to see how many men we can kill with one or 
how many trucks we can propel around a hilly 
country. 




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CHAPTER II 

This storage battery lias now become quite a 
dangerous toy to play with. If all these hundreds 
of volts and thousands of amperes were housed 
and concentrated in the typical canon-ball shaped 
"bomb" used by anarchists, you might have an 
infernal machine that could blow up the largest 
office building or a whole mountain, if the entire 
energy could be made to explode like gunpowder 
or dynamite. So we will have to figure out a way 
to make this concentrated, consolidated elec- 
tricity harmless, yet retain all its marvelous 
power and all the many other features which are 
peculiar or natural to electricity. To do this we 
must convert all or practically all these millions 
of electrical units of power into "Magnetic Elec- 
tricity," which does not shock, burn or spend it- 
self in, on or along conducting metals or sub- 
stances with which it comes into contact; but of 
its very nature concentrates to the center of the 
mass, collection, body and multitudinous swarm 
of units with powerful affinity. 

Observe the nature of the little horseshoe mag- 
net as the thousands of magnetic units with which 
it is charged or saturated, attract little particles 
of metal for which they seem to have affinity; 

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Magnetic units and energy concentrate to a common center 
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ADMONITIONS 01* A YOUNG MAN TO HIMSELF 

and the Giant Magnet used to attract or lift 
heavy metal castings in machine shops or found- 
ries. 

Having applied or poured in the necessary 
chemical solution to convert this treacherous, 
condensed volcano of electric energy into a con- 
centrated body of perhaps one hundred or more 
billion harmless magnetic units — held intact, 
welded, each unit inescapable, nonspendable, by 
the very nature and character of magnetic units 
(like a tremendous swarm of honey-bees cling- 
ing to each other in a consuming effort to be close 
as possible to the Queen Bee who is in the center 
of the swarm) it would seem, by reason or 
virtue of the very concentrating nature of these 
billions of magnetic units, that we might remove 
or attract from the square or round storage bat- 
tery, or cell chamber, the mass or body in its en- 
tirety, by applying some kind of a chemical to 
the electrolyte to disengage, liberate or separate 
the powerful body of magnetic energy from the 
solution, and employing some sort of magnetized 
"wand" to capture the "ball of harmless but tre- 
mendous power." 

Having located the proper alloy of elements 
and moulded them into a wand which has suf- 
ficient affinity or attracting power to capture this 
concentrated body of billions of magnetic units, 
we apply the poison to the liquid in the cell-cham- 

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ber, and in a short while we notice the solution 
and storage battery has become cold — which be- 
fore was warm. The wand which was held above 
the storage battery has now become very much 
more magnetic in its nature — so much so, we can 
hardly release our hand from same. 

Considering the nature of magnetic units, 
whether in a swarm or concentration of millions, 
or a consolidation of billions, we are not alto- 
gether surprised nor disappointed at being unable 
to perceive with the physical eye this concentra- 
ted body of magnetic energy — the energy which 
a short time ago was several hundred volts and 
several thousand amperes of electricity. It is 
perfectly transparent — as invisible as the wind, 
and is capable, by virtue of its nature, to pass 
through glass or other elements as you can learn 
by putting these substances between a Giant 
Magnet and the object to be attracted. 

To play or experiment further with this "ball 
of condensed energy," we will take it and the 
wand into a "dark-room" filled with a certain 
kind of gas, and here we will see the concen- 
trated body of billions of magnetic units in ap- 
parently a solid luminous ball or block, resem- 
bling the mould, battery or cell-chamber from 
which it was taken. Here we can observe some 
of the natural abilities of this remarkable but 
very positive substance. We can pass it through 

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Every electric magnetic unit or concentration of a body of 
units or energy has a Xorth and South pole. 

All of the body of concentrated Magnetic Electric en- 
ergy captured by steel magnet is by no means in the mag- 
net. Only the centers of the North and South pole con- 
centrations. Balance actually extends out in space like 
two invisible balls, inseparable from each other. 



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Like poles repel with as great force or power as unlike 
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ADMONITIONS OF A YOUNG MAN TO HIMSELF 

wood, glass, iron or any material in the room and 
it always remains firmly, intensely and immovably 
concentrated. 

Surely this ball of magnetic energy can be put 
to some practical use. Its very nature keeps it 
from "spending" or "wasting away" so we need 
not fear to let it cling to the wand while we fig- 
ure out some way to use the invention. 

We know that a magnetic body has a North 
and South pole, or negative and positive, just 
like the earth, which is itself a massive natural 
magnet. 

We will take some of the material from which 
we made our "phenomenal wand" and make a 
receiving station in another "dark-room" filled 
with this "mysterious gas," and knowing that 
"opposite poles attract" and "like poles repel," 
we will hold it steady with two wands placed at 
the equator, or neutral point — one on each side — 
and turn the South pole of a powerful bar mag- 
net to the South pole of our "luminous ball of 
energy" and watch the result. All doors are 
closed, and the South pole of the receiving mag- 
net in next room is turned toward us. The result 
is instantaneous. The ball of powerful magnetic 
units is repelled or shot through partition and at- 
tracted by South pole of receiving magnet in next 
room, and no sign of a scratch where it went 
through the wall. 

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We get brave now and try it from one part of 
the city to another with success, and between 
cities. The movement, action and speed being 
quite as quick and instantaneous as the magnetic 
electric units that travel over copper wires for 
the telegraph, telephone and cable or through 
space for the wireless. 

The question arises, can this consolidated, con- 
centrated mass of magnetic energy be put to any 
practical use other than purely scientific experi- 
menting; a plaything for scientists to repel and 
attract back and forth from one part of the earth 
to another. A veritable cannon-ball of clear, in- 
visible, concentrated magnetic units, which travels 
in a perfectly straight line, as instantaneous as 
electricity, passing through all of the seventy-two 
elements or combinations thereof that might be 
between the repelling and attracting poles, exert- 
ing no effect on anything through which it passes. 

Now if we could inject or make it receive some 
sound waves which it would retain and carry 
through space to a receiving magnet at another 
point several miles away, and the same sounds be 
collected by another instrument and made intelli- 
gible — we might dictate a letter or communica- 
tion to, or within the concentrated mass and the 
same be taken from the magnetic ball at another 
point — something like dictating in a "Dicta- 
phone" and the dictation being taken therefrom 

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most any time later on by a stenographer. Such an 
instrument would be very valuable in any office. 
It would eliminate nearly all postage, telegraph 
and telephone bills on messages between cities and 
save hours and hours of valuable time. Dictate 
your letter, telegram or telephone communication 
to the instrument containing the powerful ball of 
concentrated magnetic units, and reverse the at- 
tracting current to repulsive and instantaneously 
the magnetic ball jumps from St. Louis office to 
New York office, just as quickly as a telegraph 
key would respond at the same distance. Maybe 
dictate ten or fifteen letters and whistle or sing 
in a tune or two to make it interesting before 
shooting the ball, and the entire number of letters 
and tunes collected, listened to and perhaps re- 
corded at the other office without the slightest 
deviation from original wording,' meaning and 
arrangement. 



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CHAPTER III 

To make a long story short, we will construct 
quite a large storage battery of this special char- 
acter, using something like the iron Indian fre- 
quently seen in front of cigar stores, and having 
charged it for days and days, weeks and weeks 
and many months, until it contained the tremen- 
dous energy of thousands of volts and millions 
of amperes of electric current, we inject the neces- 
sary fluid or chemical to convert the electric cur- 
rent into a concentrated body of billions and bil- 
lions of magnetic units, to make him a "Good 
Indian" instead of one capable of killing a whole 
army of men. Now in addition to being a tame 
body of magnetic power, we want him to have a 
mind. 

We will not take one from a human being in 
this experiment, but drill down and capture one 
out of a horse's head and transfer it to the inside 
of our Indian's head. 

Having done this we inject the necessary chem- 
ical to separate or liberate the powerful body of 
concentrated magnetic units and take care to 
capture same with the proper kind of a giant 
magnet (or magnetic field) and step into our 
mysterious "dark-room" to see what we have. 

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Not altogether surprising, we have at our mercy 
a luminous body of concentrated magnetic units, 
the head of which seems to be almost solid, but 
the balance scarcely discernible, but by no means 
without millions of quantity in magnetic units; 
the whole mass shaped and formed identical with 
the mold or battery used. In other words, a 
tame, (let us hope useful) magnetic Indian, with 
the mind of a horse, which doubtless has given 
him " horse sense" because he smiles with an ex- 
pression of intelligence. 

His lips move, but I hear no sound. I put my 
head up to and within his and hear him just as 
loud and silent as my own thoughts — which one 
must confess are sometimes louder than the most 
eloquent orator and easily louder than any kind 
of ordinary noise and conversation. He could 
" think to me" instead of "talk to me," and the 
method of communication was quite as efficient, 
intelligible and satisfactory. 

When one records his thoughts by writing, there 
is no sound but the scratch of the pen, and when 
read by another there still is no sound unless 
voiced by the reader, and yet the thoughts, words 
and sentences may be some of the most influential 
and effective of any ideas yet formed by an in- 
ventive mind and intellect. 

So I did not marvel unnecessarily at this nat- 
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ural condition or ability with him as a magnetic 
creation, and learned that he could understand 
me whether I expressed my thoughts audibly or 
merely formed them in my mind, same as we al- 
ways do before utterance. 

His very nature and composition was energy 
and power, and a very, very large quantity of 
it — condensed, compressed, consolidated and 
concentrated into this artificial human statue 
or body of electric magnetic units. So I was not 
altogether surprised at his willingness and intense 
eagerness to do something for me and was pleased 
at his spirit of accommodation — but this was 
doubtless due to his " horse sense" for is not the 
slave known as "horse" a good worker — both 
willing and accommodating — all for the little pleas- 
ure and remuneration of some dry hay, oats, corn, 
water and a miserable place to rest and sleep? 

Sure! he could do something for me — maybe a 
thousand things, if I could think of them. "See 
if you can repeat this thot, 'What do you 
think of my latest invention.' I am going to re- 
pel you to my scientific friend in New York, and 
I want you to deliver the message to him." "That 
will be very easy," he thot back — and not a 
physical sound passed between us — purely mental 
and rich in its suggestiveness of perfect intellec- 
tuality. 

I called up my brother scientist in New 
York and requested of him to turn the South 

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pole of his special magnet toward St. Louis and 
phone me exact time to a second when this, my 
latest model, "Electric Magnetic Body of En- 
ergy," reached him and to put his head to the 
head of my model and let me know what he un- 
derstood from same. 

I then placed this "Good Indian" in a horizon- 
tal position, with his head, or North Pole, toward 
New York and directed a powerful South Pole 
magnetic field to his feet and instantly that pow- 
erful body of concentrated magnetic electric 
units and energy had disappeared. 

Not many minutes later "Long Distance" 
wanted me, and my scientific friend in New York 
said the "apparition" had been there since 11:45 
A. M. which corresponded exactly with the time 
I repelled him from my dark-room — considering 
exact difference in time between the two cities. 
He said he understood the message quite as well 
as if I had been there in person, "What do you 
think of my latest invention." "My only answer 
is that such an invention could be very useful and 
efficient all over the world if the mind or intel- 
lect of the concentrated magnetic body was well 
educated, proficient and capable. Suppose we 
try to educate him. I will dictate some knowl- 
edge and learning to him and repel him to you 
and you can do likewise, seeing that it is his de- 
light to be attracted and repelled, back and forth. 
He seems to have a very sensible mind for some 
reason or other, and appears eager to learn." 

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CHAPTER IV 

We will not go into detail as to how long it 
took to educate this "Good Indian" having just 
ordinary "horse sense," but these things are 
worthy of notice: His craving, hunger and thirst 
for learning, knowledge and education, instead of 
thirst for liquor and hunger for tobacco, and the 
stimulants still worse (but that may have been 
due to his magnetic instead of physical nature). 
His delight in ability, the acquisition and posses- 
sion of knowledge by memory; his enthusiasm; 
his untiring energy and application; his wonder- 
ful grasp of figures and preference for good 
grammar and correct spelling; a consuming in- 
terest in the history of humanity from the earli- 
est records down to the present time; and amuse- 
ment at the different religions of the different 
peoples at different periods; his inspiration from 
beautiful music, and hearty mental laughter at 
good wholesome jokes and humor; his wisdom 
and prudence at the slightest suggestion of ad- 
monition, and his early admiration of the idea of 
being "self-made." From then on we had but 
to put books within the range of his mental eyes 
and he did the rest — reading everything word 
by word, line after line — even as a business man 

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reads an important communication once and he 
knows for weeks and if necessary longer, almost 
every word in the letter. He became his own 
teacher, preacher, architect and made himself 
well-bred, cultured, refined and accomplished — ■ 
and was such a character that if in a young man 
he not only could be trusted with another's sister, 
wife, daughter, sweetheart and children — but the 
lady or children would be benefited and elevated 
by having come into contact with him. That 
type of young man is fast becoming very scarce 
on the face of the earth nowadays, because of the 
prevalent belief that "When you die you are a 
long time dead" and "Might as well get all out 
of life you can, because you have only once to 
live." 

Now this body of consolidated,, concentrated 
Magnetic Electric Energy has become so well ed- 
ucated that he can do most anything we require 
of him — from the simplest duties to the execution 
of the most difficult and admirable tasks and 
problems. A veritable automatic instrument or 
an artificial human automaton, so to speak. 

We tried to keep track of his abilities as he 
learned or became capable of performing or ex- 
ecuting them, but the number was too numerous 
— far beyond the million mark. 

He became very much interested in my con- 
struction, composition, nature, reason for being 

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in existence — purpose of the hard work, difficult 
battles, unjust treatment by employers and cus- 
tomers; all this suffering under the whip and 
spur of hunger, poverty, bills, humiliation, in- 
sults, seeming insurmountable barriers, unpre- 
ventable necessities by the hundreds, etc. — to 
make a living; and I assured him these were 
questions that frequently confronted me when 
a boy of fifteen and sixteen, and were not 
altogether clear as yet, but that between the two 
of us maybe we could form some kind of an 
idea. So he suggested that we go together to a 
certain Medical College on a particular night, 
and having done this, we went into one of the 
rooms where stood a few large chests, and on 
opening one I beheld half a dozen "stiffs," — more 
commonly known as dead bodies of men and 
women. I felt just a little creepy at first, but re- 
membered that medical students learn of the 
human body and its requirements by dissecting it 
and they get subjects to work on from the Morgue 
and elsewhere. 

My intelligent, home-made Magnetic Indian 
suggested that if I lift out one of those large 
bodies and hold it to the giant magnet with which 
I held him prisoner, he might be able to "charge" 
it, ' ' electrify, " " magnetize " or " saturate ' ' it with 
his entire billions of magnetic electric energy. 

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I did this, and sure enough he electrified, 
charged and magnetized the entire body and 
arose from the floor. The magnet clung to him quite 
as tenaciously as some you have seen in various 
high-powered experiments and as long as I let it 
cling to him, he was a very energetic and vigorous 
artificial human being indeed — about three times 
as powerful as an ordinary strong man. The grip 
of his hand was powerful enough to crush the 
bones in mine if he cared to be vicious like a wild 
man, but his education prevented that and the 
pressure was simply sincerity when we "shook" 
on the success of the experiment. 

He talked quite freely and asked if I caught 
the idea. I told him I certainly did — because of 
the acquaintance I had with him before he 
"charged" that body — I knew the human body 
was composed of two parts, magnetic electric and 
elementary or earthly. Even as electricity would 
"charge" or be united with just such a statue of 
copper wires, instead of nerves, or a hardened 
steel statue would be united with magnetic units 
or salt with water — the electricity, magnetism or 
salt is throughout the entire metal or element to 
the remotest atom. He made that body very much 
alive, but unlike me, he was cold and I well knew 
that he could hardly be otherwise with embalm- 
ing fluid in his veins. 

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I asked him what his idea was as to the differ- 
ence between him and myself, so he walked over to 
a shelf, took down a book and suggested that we 
read, re-read and memorize many of the facts 
and calculations set forth in it by one of the high- 
est authorities on electricity, magnetism, batter- 
ies, and electro-plating. "Follow closely now,'' 
he said, "the suggestion may be worth more to 
you later on than several million dollars. For- 
tunately these facts, figures and realities will 
stay indelibly recorded on such pages as we have 
in this book and wait for you day by day (more 
patiently than Job) to grasp them, whether you 
get many at once or only a few and you consume 
many days in the task. Notice in particular these 
statements of facts which were realities when the 
world began and will be exactly the same as long 
as it lasts — be it five hundred million years ago 
or five hundred billion years to come." 

" 'All chemical action generates Electro Mo- 
tive Force. The simplest form of a cell consists 
of at least two bodies, of which one at least must 
be a liquid, in and between which two bodies the 
chemical action goes on which generates the E. 
M. F. Such a cell is usually composed of an elec- 
trolyte (often called the exciting liquid) into 
which are placed two conducting bodies — one is 
usually a metal — but in some cells the chemical 
action takes place between two different liquids, 

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one the Electrolyte and the other the Anode, and 
the Cathode may be the receptacle or cell-cham- 
ber itself, which serves to collect and conduct the 
electric current, receive deposit from the electro- 
lyte (as you will understand under electro- 
plating). 

" 'The chemical action which takes place is as 
follows: When the two elements of the cell are 
placed in the electrolyte (or an Anode and elec- 
trolyte poured into Cathode cell chamber) the fact 
of there being a "chemical affinity" between the 
various substances in the cell, sets up a differ- 
ence of potential. This affinity may or may not 
set up a chemical action, but so long as the exter- 
nal circuit is open whatever action may occur is 
only local, and its energy appears as heat/ " 

He looked up from the book with the question, 
"Is not your blood warm? Put your cold hand 
inside your clothes against your body, feel the 
heat and be convinced. Don't you shovel com- 
positions of elements into your generating bat- 
tery three times each day, like you put in fresh 
salts ©f copper and fresh water into an ordinary 
wet battery and remove the decomposed residue 
and acid to refresh the electric current that 
makes your door-bell ring or telephone operate? 
The salts and water in the wet battery decom- 
pose and make common ordinary electricity. 
The foods you eat and water you drink (and any 

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other liquid not already decomposed or fermented) 
will decompose under the action of the gastric 
juice in your stomach and generate electric cur- 
rent, which in turn is converted into magnetic 
units, being attracted perhaps by the peculiar 
liquid in the head or brain and by nature concen- 
trates to a common center. This generating bat- 
tery starts working with the beginning of life 
and generates twenty-four hours per day, seven 
days per week, each week in the month, every 
week, month and day in the year — year by year 
as long as you draw breath. 

1 ' I ask you the question, could not this generat- 
ing battery charge a large storage battery with 
thousands of volts and millions of amperes in this 
length of time ? And if the electric current is be- 
ing continually converted into concentrating mag- 
netic units, quite a few could be developed, 
created and manufactured in 10,950 days (or 
about thirty years) say in the neighborhood of a 
few billion or trillion, according to how energetic 
you have been during the thirty years. To say 
nothing of thirty or forty additional years which 
are yours for the practice and observation of 
healthy and beneficial habits, and these years pro- 
ductive, not only of ordinary generating and stor- 
ing ability, but capable of compound increase 
with each succeeding year — up to a ripe old age. 

"Estimate, if you can, the volume, quantity 
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and density of magnetic units and energy that 
could be developed and stored in a strenuous life 
of sixty or seventy years. 

"The skin and skull is a good insulator of mag- 
netic electric current and energy, but not ab- 
solute. 

"Rub a knife blade a few times over a steel mag- 
net and note that it absorbs some of the magnetic 
units and energy. Likewise, draw a rubber comb 
thru your hair a few times and note that it ab- 
sorbs some magnetic units and is capable of 
picking up particles of paper. Don't tell me 
you are not magnetic-electric in nature. Perhaps 
if your skull was steel instead of being insulated 
with skin, you could attract iron or steel bars 
against your head and look like a horned toad or 
porcupine, considering that the power and quan- 
tity of magnetic current and energy in your head 
is sufficient to magnetize, saturate and hold erect 
a two or three hundred pound body of element 
compositions, muscles, framework, nerves and 
organs, and do it with perfect ease. Does not a 
dead body wilt, sink and fall, absolutely helpless, 
to the floor ?" (Here he jerked out one of the 
lifeless bodies from a chest and demonstrated his 
argument.) 

"Now if each magnetic unit can take a mental 
record, there is room for quite a few records. 

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For instance, call before your mind some of the 
magnetic units developed in childhood and read 
the records. You can call them to your atten- 
tion by the score, and with a little time and study, 
follow the record from day to day, week to week 
— all records made by your double acting moving 
picture camera, the eyes, your double acting dicta- 
phone, the ears, your magnetic feelers, the fin- 
gers, your smeller, the nose, and your taster, the 
tongue. There is apparently no limit to the num- 
ber or quantity of records you can make on those 
magnetic units. If you can make one hundred 
per day for thirty years, you shall have recorded 
1,095,000 things, and there still would be room 
for ten million more, and then some. The only 
draw-back or restriction to recording quantity 
will be and is your limit of sixteen to seventeen 
hours per day out of the twenty-four, because the 
other seven to eight hours are required by your 
automatic brain to sensitize a few more thousand 
magnetic units. (To learn the action of sensitized 
films and plates and the 'development' and 'fix- 
ing' of reflections and images, study and practice 
photography a little in an amateur way.) 

"Have you noticed that you are taking in im- 
pressions, knowledge, education and information 
thru the channels mentioned above — minute af- 
ter minute, division after division of each hour, 
from hour to hour, part to part of day, each day, 

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.;.;:';- ;: : , -. 






M^ 



m 







The human mind is an orderly store room and work 
shop the size of this building and larger if you require 
of it to be. 



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each week, each month, year after year — and 
that you can literally digest the knowledge thus 
taken in and form thots, ideas, conceptions 
and never lose the knowledge or ideas thus ac- 
quired or created if you cared to remember same ? 
Your mental capacity, literally speaking, like a 
very large office building with many departments: 
'Learning or School Department;' 'Music, Elocu- 
tion or Accomplishments;' 'Idea Factory, oper- 
ated by your conceiving ability;' 'Encyclopaedia 
Knowledge and Education Department;' 'Inspi- 
ration, Aspiration and Ambition Department;' 
' Health, Recreation and Amusement Department ; ' 
'Admonition and Self-Government Department;' 
'Etiquette and Culture Department;' 'Depart- 
ment of General and Special abilities;' 'Business 
and Financial Department;' etc., this building 
the largest in the world, and as many times larger 
as you make it necessary by increasing the size 
and speed of the intake streams. The entire 
building or storage battery condensed, compressed, 
consolidated, liquefied and concentrated into bil- 
lions of magnetic electric units and energy with- 
in the human skull. 

"If you doubt or question this reality, have 
someone ask you a question, or to do something, 
and if it is within your 'office building' you can 
answer it or do it — your mind and intellect work- 
ing automatically and instantly. Perhaps the 

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record is small enough to put ten thousand on 
the head of a pin, but if your question is 'What 
did you purchase last week?' and the answer 
'A Home,' you can see the great and vital im- 
portance of the record; but its place in your 
magnetic filing-cabinet is infinite simally small 
but very positive and indelible — capable of en- 
largement, something on the order of a 'project- 
ing-machine' making life-size the little images 
on the film." 

I now asked him if he thot I could safely 
leave my body and retain all of the vigor, energy, 
ability and knowledge that I thus far had de- 
veloped and acquired, and if so, how in the world 
could I disengage, separate or liberate myself 
from this "cell chamber," "mold," "generating 
and storage battery," this "cathode," "electro- 
lyte and anode" liquids. He said this would be 
easy enough by stepping in front of a fast moving 
street car or automobile, taking poison or the 
thousand other ways you will read of in the daily 
paper. 

"You can knock the concentrated body of mag- 
netic energy out of a steel magnet," he continued, 
"by dropping or knocking it sharply against any 
hard material. But you had best not be in a 
hurry, because you may not be able to generate, 
develop, enlarge, grow, improve, intensify after 
you are out of the generating battery ; and ability, 

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energy, knowledge, education and accomplish- 
ments mark your degrees of superiority. At any 
rate, the schooling and severe discipline of earth 
is very valuable. If you remain and be very care- 
ful to avoid accident and the thousand and one 
diseases of the flesh — and stay in your generating 
and storage cells for fifty, sixty or seventy years — 
you have an excellent opportunity (and the possi- 
bility) to surpass all the careless and be equal to 
the best men or women of present and past genera- 
tions. It will be impossible for you to develop, 
enlarge, and be a dynamo of energy much beyond 
these ages. Very few have. 

"You delight in ability, activity, energy, prog- 
ress, advancement and the acquisition of knowl- 
edge and education for fifty, sixty to seventy 
years while in your ' cell-house' or 'mold' and 
you will radiate a magnetic field perhaps one 
hundred feet in extension in all directions from 
your powerful mind, intellect and will-power — 
when the inevitable time materializes that you 
can no longer stay in the clay body. Whereas if 
you do not grow and develop in this manner, 
your mind and personality will never exert any 
kind of influence beyond the boundary of your 
skull except that exerted by a drone or sluggard. 
The potential dimensions of a gigantic mind and 
intellect may be thus correctly compared to that 
developed by a life of indolence or cowardly fear 
of special exertion and application essential to 
advancement. ' ' 

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CHAPTER V 

Now my educated, magnetic Indian friend said 
he was quite dissatisfied with the idea of being 
held a prisoner in a human "cell-chamber," 
"storage battery," "mold" or "cathode" even 
though it was the most remarkable temple and 
work of artistic design he had ever imagined it 
could possibly be — much more wonderful than 
one can realize from charts and physiologies. He 
was eager to be free from the clay or combination 
of elements that are held fast to earth by the mag- 
netic attraction and affinity of the earth-magnet 
for its kind — even as the steel magnet attracts 
steel or iron. So he asked to be taken from the 
body and said he would still be held by the Giant 
Magnet if I would pull it off his back, and this 
was the exact result and the cold body fell life- 
less to the floor with a dull thud. 

I took my powerful invisible friend back to 
our famous "dark-room," and he, after quite a 
long silence, "thot to me" in a most serious 
manner. 

"You repel me out and away from the earth 
once and I will bring you some valuable informa- 
tion. Keep your attracting magnetic field up- 
ward and I will return in a few days." 

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I trusted him because he was a man of his 
word. When he said anything I could rely and 
depend upon it absolutely (another trait rapidly 
becoming rare in the character of physical men 
and women of today — "reliability" and "depend- 
ability"). 

So I repelled him upward. Yes — directly 
thru the ceiling, the apartment above, another 
ceiling and the roof, and not a scratch or a sound 
where and when he went thru. 

I walked out into the yard and looked up at 
the stars, hardly expecting to see my Magnetic 
Electric friend, however, firstly, because it was 
impossible outside the Special Dark-Room to see 
him, due to his absolute and perfect transparency. 
Secondly, he was no ordinary human sky-rocket, 
with an ability to travel 288,000 miles per second 
(and perhaps greater speed, being a powerful unit 
made up of a concentration of billions of mag- 
netic electric units and energy) or capable of 
reaching the moon in less than one second, or 
Mars in less than four minutes, if he chose to 
direct his course that way. 

The stars had never seemed very interesting 
before, but now there was a flood of questions 
tumbling over each other in my mind as to the 
nature, purpose, value and significance of those 
bright orbs of light. I was astonished and ashamed 
at the small stock of knowledge I had of these 

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beautiful realities, particularly when there was 
such unlimited room in my " office-building " for 
such knowledge. I was unable to pick out or 
distinguish the planets from the fixed stars or 
suns — and what a vague, incorrect, narrow and 
shallow idea as to relative distances and numbers 
of those suns and planetary systems. 

I had a remote idea there might possibly be 
something of interest out among those thousands 
and millions of suns and planets — at any rate on 
Mars, Venus or maybe the moon; and the more 
I pondered on the matter, the more anxiety I 
began to feel, because if there were any inhabi- 
tants out there like my powerful, educated, 
home-made Indian, they could approach the 
earth, me and anyone else to within a foot or an 
inch and we, or I, would be none the wiser — be- 
cause he never made the slightest suggestion of a 
physical sound only when he charged that dead 
body and conversed with me, and was completely 
invisible only when in my special dark-room. 
So it was pretty hard to speculate as to what 
he might encounter — when and where. Of course 
I could think, reason and estimate what probably 
might happen, but every conclusion seemed very 
uncertain. 

What if some Power should attract and hold 
him captive and positively refuse to allow him to 
return to earth and me? Then again he was not 

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the property of anyone but myself. I created 
him and was wholly responsible for his education 
and ability. 

Surely he would be allowed to return even if 
deprived of any direct and definite information. 

All I could do was go to bed and try to sleep — 
wait — and divert my attention to commercial 
pursuits until a few days had passed; but it was 
hard to keep the subject off my mind. 

I ran across an article which calculated the 
distance from our sun and planetary system to 
the nearest star or sun at twenty-five trillion 
miles — and that one insignificant. The next — 
forty-two trillion — and the first of any signifi- 
cance, fifty-four trillion miles distant. This al- 
most dumfounded me and caused me to estimate 
that my Good Indian would not return here "in 
no few days," unless he confined his exploration 
and investigation within or very close to our little 
territory; because to cross the tremendous gulf 
to the first, second and third neighbors or systems 
would require about three, four or six years re- 
spectively and as many years to return, traveling 
at his full speed of 288,000 miles per second. 

There was his promise to return in a few days, 
so I concluded that he would surely refrain from 
making the trip, at least on this occasion. 

After eight days I began to get impatient and 
anxious, but still had left an abundance of con- 

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fidence. I knew if lie didn't come back it 
wouldn't be his fault. 

At the end of two weeks, I sauntered into my 
Dark-Room as usual — and there he was. 

Needless to say, I was pleased. 

His countenance was noticeably superior and 
represented a high conception of nobility. These 
observations convinced me at a glance that this 
Intelligent Body of Power and Energy had some 
knowledge verging on, if not actually super- 
human, and whatever the nature, it was to be 
highly respected. There was no question now 
about him being my superior and capable of 
teaching me instead of I teaching him. 

If this apparition was that part of man often 
referred to as the Spirit, Ghost or Soul — I thot 
it certainly is a most substantial reality. 

He smiled as I entered, and when I approached 
close enough to start mind-reading, he asked me 
in a most natural sort of way — "Did you think I 
was never coming back?" 

I told him I hadn't lost much confidence, but 
was uneasy about his welfare and much concerned 
about his safety. He laughed in his same old 
familiar sincerity, rich in friendliness, fun, joy, 
gladness, happiness and pleasure — tho not a sin- 
gle physical sound. 

He inquired as to my commercial progress 
while he was away, my family, etc. — like any 

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other human friend — and I was certainly glad 
to see him act natural and perfectly at home this 
way; because it showed that his unusual and 
enviable experience had not made him any less 
the brother or chum he had been to me. 

He certainly had reasons enough to be aristo- 
cratic and authoritative if he wanted to. He dem- 
onstrated to me that he could disengage himself 
from my attracting magnet and move about at 
his discretion — something he had learned while 
away — but then I had shown my trust in him by 
granting his request to be free and away from the 
earth. 

"Get your loose-leaf note-book," he said, "and 
write the report down as I deliver it to you, be- 
cause I shall never have the time to repeat." 

I did as he requested but argued that if the 
tale was very long, we could not make very fast 
progress as I could write no more than an hour 
or two each day at the most, being a very busy 
man. He persisted however, and said he would 
follow me to the office for an hour or so each 
day if necessary, until the report was complete. 

"It may take several days," he continued, 
"but at the end you will have a few ideas to keep 
you busy for the balance of your life on earth. 
Then again you may wish to refer to certain 
things which you cannot think of every day or 
remember clearly, whereas if written down you 

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have it always for reference. Also your children 
may wish to read — and your grandchildren. 

" Don't be too much concerned about other 
people, because most of them are in advance of 
you already and you would do well to take ex- 
ample after many with whom you are associated 
and come into contact daily. In fact, if another 
ridicule you for indulging in beneficial pleasures, 
practices, recreations and diversions in your pri- 
vate and personal habits — you very quickly tell 
him it is none of his business or affair. Likewise 
it is his privilege to tell you it is none of your 
business or affair if you find fault or criticize 
him for indulging in detrimental and injurious 
private habits." 

"The private affairs, indulgences and habits of 
anyone is nobody's business but his own and his 
loved ones. If a boy, girl, man or woman wishes 
to improve, he must censure himself. No other 
method will bring about near such good results. 
In fact, if you perceive or notice any despicable 
fault in another — watch yourself and see if you 
have or practice the fault — and if so, discontinue 
or eliminate the same from your own nature, dis- 
position, habits or character. 

"You take good care that you are faultless, or 
as nearly so as possible, and show little concern 
or interest in the faults of others — almost indif- 
ference. If people wish to deliberately and will- 

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fully drink poisons and court spiritual death, it 
is their privilege and personal liberty to do so. 
Only see to it that you do not influence the folly 
by example. You protect and guard your own 
respectableness at all hazards and you will have 
enough to do to keep you busy. ,, 



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CHAPTER VI 

"In the first place the instant you repelled me 
upward, I was captured by the combined attract- 
ing power of half a dozen powerful Magnetic 
Bodies, similar in nature to myself, but much 
superior in every way. Greater strength, greater 
energy, smarter, more highly educated, more in- 
genius, better cultured, greater knowledge, more 
accomplished, more able and capable, broader and 
deeper minded — head somewhat larger — in short, 
superior ability, respectableness, honorableness 
and praiseworthiness. Countenances similar to 
those customarily seen on the walls in the homes 
of respectable and cultured families. It isn't 
necessary to mention the old familiar favorites. 
They have the endorsement of millions of men 
and women whose opinion is to be respected. 

"I had long since learned to honor, respect 
and admire countenances and characters of this 
type, so I was glad to be with them. 

"They appeared and looked as natural to me 
as you and I did to each other when both in the 
flesh at that Medical College. Only two parts of 
the body being plainly visible however, — the 
head, which appeared solid, and a dense concen- 
tration around the vicinity of the heart, forming 

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Countenances similar to those customarily seen, etc. Call 
this jury to your assistance when undecided about what 
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ADMONITIONS OF A YOUNG MAN TO HIMSELF 

perhaps the South Pole of the magnetic body of 
energy. Balance of body scarcely discernible, 
but by no means without millions of quantity in 
magnetic units and energy. 

" These gentlemen, and one lady too by the way, 
were very much amused at seeing and holding me 
within the combined attracting power of the 
group. They joked at my expense, but were not 
embarrassing, impolite or ill-bred about it. I 
rather liked the clever spirit of the fun and made 
myself perfectly at home. They were fine, pleas- 
ant, jovial, goodnatured people, but explained 
that they did not appear this way to everybody. 
Then I caught the idea that a group of judges 
on earth are fine, jovial fellows among their 
friends and respectable acquaintances, but look 
very stern, heartless, pitiless, mean* and cruel to 
the violator. And this is not unnatural — because 
fair, just and honorable men and women have 
no pity, mercy, sympathy or compassion for con- 
temptibility and deficiency, either in self or 
others. 

"They said they had been keeping tab on you 
as well as I, and expected me to dart out after 
information at some moment or other and were 
particularly watchful, because the action would 
be quicker than they were used to, and none 
must pass the Phalanx of Judges without per- 
mission and the customary examination — that 

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the undesirables are ushered off in a different 
direction from the acceptable and desirable. 

"No, not to Hades. These men and women are 
more nearly perfectly just and humane than the 
judges of earth. To nurse and harbor revenge 
is ignoble and unmanly, much less indulge in it 
to the unmerciful degree of eternal torture by 
fire or tantalization. Hades is a poor conception 
of just punishment for undesirables. A full 
realization of the actual sentence pronounced on 
the contemptible, is far more horrifying than the 
ablest description of a Hades. None but the 
deeply educated however, look with horror and 
terror upon the disgrace, dishonor, shame and 
humiliation of spiritual death and absolute dis- 
continuation of personal life and existence. De- 
spised and rejected of men. Cast out from the 
society of people. Denied even the privilege of 
working with or for them. The most humane 
way of killing a cat or dog is to chloroform it. 
Why punish a rejected soul by even the slightest 
hint of some more life. Let the pitiful outcast 
remain unconscious of "what might have been." 
Have you known a battery to short circuit, spend 
itself and be dead in just a few hours? What is 
to prevent the proper Authorities from short cir- 
cuiting you as a concentrated body of Magnetic 
Electricity and spend you back into space as a 
billion or so separate units, never to be reunited? 

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"This 'Phalanx of Judges' was a revelation 
to me. I had been taught that there was only 
One Judge, and being respectful and reverent, I 
never questioned or disputed the general belief. 
They cleared up this erroneous view, however, by 
explaining that, individually, they were very 
similar in nature to the Supreme Judge, but 
smaller and inferior — that He was hardly cap- 
able of doing more than one thing at a time like 
any ordinary mind and intellect — and the fair, 
just and equitable judgment of a human character 
required considerable time, attention, thorough 
and correct knowledge of circumstances, environ- 
ments, influences, conditions, etc., which could 
not be known unless the mind and intellect of 
the boy, girl, man or woman was followed and 
read continually each day, week, month and 
year — while in course of formation, growth and 
development. 

"There are, as you know, more than two or 
three duplicates of yourself on the face of the 
earth. 

"Bring in an ordinary 18 inch geographical 
sphere or globe and count the cities and towns, 
open up an atlas and read the population of each. 
Foot up the figures and you find there are quite 
a few — the small number of seventeen hundred mil- 
lion (1,700,000,000). 

1 'You are only one seventeen hundred mil- 
lionth part of this number. 

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"Next time you pick up a newspaper, count 
the little tiny letters that constitute the words 
and see if there are about one million, or the popu- 
lation of your city and county. Find yourself. 
You are only one in the city. 

"Now, in reality, you are here magnified seven- 
teen hundred times, and the truth of your signif- 
icance might be compared to an ordinary typhoid 
bacillus which is 1500 times smaller than one of 
these little letters. 

"Or you can pile up seventeen hundred large 
newspapers of one million tiny small printing 
letters each; or open up one volume of a great 
encyclopedia of about seventeen hundred million 
total and find yourself. 

"Measure if possible, your importance, value 
and significance. . 

"How much difference would it make to any 
Government to reject a million or so out of every 
crop of 1,700,000,000, which is the production of 
earth every period of thirty-three years, or the 
average life of man, — much less one tiny little 
you. Does a farmer go chasing thru the woods 
to coax back a truant bee which has willfully or 
otherwise left the swarm? 

"How many Judges or Officers do you estimate 
it requires to handle, each twenty-four hours, one 
hundred forty thousand brand-new Human Mag- 
netic Electric Automatic Instruments, — each with 

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Ordinary fly somewhat enlarged. 




Lower Joints of the Foot — Magnified 160 Diameters. 



$ 



You are just one of these little bacilli com- 
pared to tlie number of similar human heads in 
one crop from earth. Who should be concerned 
about and make that little unit valuable? 



The foot of the fly, enlarged 
1500 diameters, showing the 
deadly typhoid bacilli at the 
tip. 



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a mind, intellect, will and character, — just newly 
separated or liberated from the generating and 
storage battery of clay? And the habits, thirsts 
and pleasures of each must be thoroughly and 
correctly known before he is captured and passed 
upon, because no earthly court handles their 
prisoners with such despatch and promptness as 
those like the One I encountered. 

"Do you know that there are a sufficient num- 
ber, so that you and each one like you, can be 
followed and watched on all occasions, that they 
may keep themselves continually posted as to 
your merit, desirability and acceptability — partic- 
ularly in view of the fact that no one, not even 
Them, in all their superior ability, know in ad- 
vance of that fatal accident or illness which none 
can avoid? It may be today, tonight, tomorrow 
— never later than a few months or years. They 
are always ready for you. I wonder if you are 
always as ready to meet Them. 

"The number constituting this impregnable 
Phalanx, must necessarily be upwards of one 
hundred million. Seventeen human minds and in- 
tellects to an Officer would not be too many, con- 
sidering that electricity can get around some- 
what more promptly than human legs, horses, au- 
tomobiles, street-cars, trains and ships. 

"The Inventor judges, do not forget, but thru 
competent representatives and a thoroughly suffi- 

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cient number of Therti. They are governed by the 
standard given for each country, locality and race 
— none acceptable beneath and all are accepted 
who are up to or above. It is safest to be very de- 
sirable. 

"I was more of a curiosity than a fair subject 
to be 'weighed in the balance,' because I had not 
encountered the usual tests, temptations, decep- 
tions, barriers, opposition, antagonisms, compe- 
tition, etc. — common with all members of the 
human family — but having done the best I could 
under the peculiar circumstances of my creation 
and education, I was treated like any other or- 
dinary, honorable and respectable citizen, which 
is with courtesy, thotfulness, consideration and 
hospitality. 

"So far. I was almost unbelievably close to 
Mother Earth, and I could see you out there in 
the yard sky-gazing and calculating. It would 
surprise you to know how close by your favorite 
types of countenances, ability and character are 
each minute of the day. Let me strengthen your 
knowledge of their reality and close proximity. 

"You have observed, noticed, perceived and 
realized that you are an automatic instrument 
of efficiency, capable of one to ten million abili- 
ties — not as a child necessarily — but as a dynamo 
of energy. 

"No machine, engine, or instrument having 
abilities, is conceived, invented, experimented 

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with, perfected and produced in quantities unless 
the demand, necessity, want and requirement was 
keenly felt beforehand. There is no disputing 
the fact that 'Necessity is the mother of inven- 
tion. ' 

"If the machine or instrument has ten or fif- 
teen abilities, there existed first ten or fifteen 
necessities, wants, requirements and desires for 
the machine or instrument capable of meeting, 
satisfying or supplying those wants, necessities, 
desires and requirements. This you can be ab- 
solutely sure of. It is evidenced, shown, indi- 
cated, proven and exemplified in every man-made 
machine, instrument and engine. 

"The demand and sale of hundreds of the ma- 
chines or instruments, prove and indicate that 
those necessities, wants, desires and requirements 
are located at hundreds of points or places through- 
out the country or world. 

"The more ingenious and costly the machine, 
the more pronounced, keenly and intensely is felt 
the necessity for the instrument. For example: 

"When you stand before a powerful locomotive 
you see two very prominent abilities of that 
machine. It is capable of propelling itself from 
one city to another several times faster than a 
team of horses can make the trip, and pull many 
coaches of passengers or cars of freight, instead 
of one carriage or wagon. 

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"With the progressive spirit among the thrifty 
founders of your States and Cities, it was very 
early realized that some means of transportation 
to and from cities, superior to the stage, was 
essential to the rapid growth of inland towns and 
necessary to hold the Country together in a union. 
So under the pressure of this necessity, the ma- 
chine, engine or instrument was conceived of, in- 
vented, created, improved and perfected — having 
the abilities to satisfy and meet those necessities 
or requirements. 

"Now as we perceive and comprehend a loco- 
motive, we see and recognize the indisputable 
evidence in the argument of those two remark- 
able abilities, the existence of two great, prom- 
inent and keenly felt necessities first. (Of 
course the ingenious mind, intellect and deft 
fingers did not exist which conceived and 
made the first crude model, each piece; studied 
out the cause and effect of certain principles — 
the subsequent improvement on parts and the 
design, conception and perfection of machinery, 
tools and instruments to make the hundreds of 
parts that constitute the completed and modern 
locomotive — the inventor or inventors did not or 
do not exist ( ?) Just the necessity existed for the 
machine with the abilities and some one said, 
'Let there be a locomotive,' — and there it was. 
You can go to an insane asylum and find plenty 

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of people who can realize that some genius or 
group of inventors conceived, invented, made and 
perfected the locomotive. A sane man or woman 
don't seem to be able to realize it.) 

"Take an adding machine or typewriter with 
its ten or fifteen abilities. There are the ten or 
fifteen arguments that there existed ten or fif- 
teen necessities first before the instrument was 
made having these ten or fifteen abilities. 

"Also a typewriter is at least fifteen times su- 
perior to a plain block of steel the same size, 
because at least of its fifteen abilities. 

"Also if a block of steel the size of a type- 
writer is a reality, the typewriter is fifteen times 
more positive in reality by virtue of the fifteen 
ingenious abilities — to say nothing of the thou- 
sand parts that constitute the machine. 

"Now count the automatic abilities of an in- 
dustrious, energetic man. They are too numer- 
ous to mention. Ten million is a rough estimate. 
Every street, building and almost everything 
inside each building show, indicate and prove 
thousands of these abilities. 

"Each ability is an indisputable argument in 
favor of the reality of a necessity which existed 
and was keenly felt before the human automaton 
was conceived of, and under pressure of ten mil- 
lion such necessities the automatic instrument was 
crudely experimented with, improved upon and 

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perfected, and several fair-sized laboratories, plan- 
ets or gardens prepared on which to produce the 
required number. 

"Somewhere there exists a Realm or Domain 
where is keenly felt ten million wants, neces- 
sities, requirements and desires for the individual 
and combined abilties of man ; and the supply of 
fifty-one million instruments per year from this 
earth alone, indicate that the necessities are very 
much alive now and are located at quite a few 
points, perhaps several trillion, and cover quite 
a vast territory. It would appear that the demand 
is likely to hold out for quite a while yet, consider- 
ing the great number of planets that are producing 
and are being made ready to produce. 

"Now a human being is superior to a statue 
(stone or clay) of the same shape and design. 
Every ability marks a point or degree of superior- 
ity. Ten million times superior. 

"If a statue is a positive reality, a human be- 
ing is ten million times more positive in reality, 
by virtue of his ten million ingenious automatic 
abilities — to say nothing of his hundreds of large 
and millions of minute ingenious and practical 
parts. 

"When a man passes out of his statute (of clay) 
as a concentrated body of billions of magnetic elec- 
tric units, he is ten million times superior to the 

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statue out of which he passed, and ten million 
times more positive in reality than the clay mold 
which is soon ashes or dust. Invisible to the phys- 
ical eye — true — but ten million times more pow- 
erful, superior and positive in reality than the 
clay or ground under your feet. Ten million 
times more positive in reality by virtue of those 
billions of concentrated electric magnetic units, 
those millions of mental records and millions of 
intelligent automatic abilities. 

"Anybody can complete a puzzle if it is almost 
worked out for him. 

"If you could travel no faster than an aero- 
plane or a thing with wings or even a bullet, you 
could get no distance away from -earth inside of 
thousands of years. What kind of efficiency 
would this be. 

"Bring the two great parts of the puzzle to- 
gether with the truth of your nature and you 
must necessarily be Magnetic Electric, when you 
pass out of the clay mold, to get your ten mil- 
lion abilities to the point or place of the ten mil- 
lion necessities for which you were invented; or 
the billions of instruments to those billions of 
points, places or localities which are waiting with 
a most pronounced demand. 

"If these Judges are twice as smart, clever, 
ingenious and able as you — then their reality is 

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not ten million times more positive — but twenty 
million times more positive than the physical in- 
animate objects about you. or twice as positive 
in reality as you. and you do not question or 
dispute your reality. 

"If you have been an infidel or doubter, you 
need not be one any longer because you are 
losing some good incentive and influence which 
should have been yours long ago. 

"One of these very respectable Gentlemen 
invited me to accompany him and take a trip 
around 'The Grounds' and see the planets of 'Old 
Sol' — that fair-sized light orb of ours which, if 
a hollow ball, could contain the small number of 
1.331,000 planets the size of our little earth, and 
which, if at the position of earth, would be large 
enough to take in the moon and extend 200.000 
miles still further beyond the circle which it 
describes. 

"Our movements were simply a series of re- 
pulsions and attractions, the exact character and 
nature of which you will learn in due season. 
Upwards of 140.000 more each twenty-four hours 
from this earth alone are learning it. You also 
will learn it because you cannot help yourself. 
In fact, you are 10,000.000 times removed from 
the possibility of failure/' 

I sized up my Magnetic Indian Friend at this 
point, and if I thot the Ghost. Soul and Spirit 

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of man was a substantial reality when I first 
beheld him on entering the dark-room as re- 
ferred to above, he had now strengthened and 
intensified that idea several thousand degrees, in 
fact he had convinced me that there was not 
much else to a fellow but his Soul and Spirit — 
just a little clay holding him to earth. 

In other words, of the 20,000,000 or so sub- 
stantial, durable and nonperishable parts of a 
man — represented by approximately 10,000,000 
automatic abilities, 10,000,000 mental records and 
15 to 20 elements — about 19,999,980 parts departed, 
separated from or left the clay mould in a con- 
centrated body of magnetic electric energy, and 
only about 20 parts, represented by 100 to 200 
lbs. of elements, remained on earth to remix with 
the fertile surface thereof. 



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CHAPTER VII 

"You are perfectly familiar with my substan- 
tial and powerful nature, construction, composi- 
tion and my billions of concentrated magnetic 
units and energy; my millions of mental records 
and a million or so automatic abilities — all 
housed up in one small unit the size of a human 
being — and particularly the speed with which I 
can travel. When the distance is only a few 
thousand miles the speed seems instantaneous, as 
you realize when you talk over the phone from 
St. Louis to New York or as your experience has 
been subjecting me to instantaneous transporta- 
tion or transmission to and from your brother 
scientist at different cities. 

"Now I will explain that to cover the distance 
from earth to the moon cannot be done instan- 
taneously. There is a limit even to the speed of 
electricity. It requires nearly all the 288,000 
parts of one second and in each one of these 
parts you know my regular speed is one mile. 
These are large divisions compared to feet and 
inches. 

"Mars at her greatest distance of 63,000,000 
miles from Earth, I can reach in less than four 
minutes, and Jupiter in twenty-two and a half 

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minutes — but to cross the diameter of circle made 
by Neptune, which, is furthest from the Sun, 
takes a little over five hours. This is a distance 
of almost six billion miles. 

"It is mere child's play to jump from one 
planet to another. It does not seem like millions 
or billions of miles, because the clear, cold vacuum 
known as "space" offers no resistance or obstruc- 
tions thru which to pass and is a good conductor 
for one as a concentrated magnetic electric body 
of energy. It seems like one's natural element 
quite as much as does your warm hydrogen and 
oxygen near earth to you in the cathode. (And 
by-the-way those vital elements absolutely essen- 
tial to your physical life are as clear, transpar- 
ent and invisible to your physical eyes as I when 
out of this special dark-room, yet who doubts 
the reality and existence of those gases.) 

"Now to get a correct idea of my experience, 
you will have to do some practicing. Every time 
you take a step — estimate the distance at about 
24 inches and figure six billion miles to the inch — 
(or the entire diameter of our Sun and planetary 
system). Draw a little circle one inch in diameter 
at the edge of a large field or circus ground, then 
step off three hundred fifty feet at seventy-two 
billion miles each, or one hundred forty-four bil- 
lion to every step of two feet. Then pick up or 
locate on the ground a tiny particle of sand. 

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ADMONITIONS OF A YOUNG MAN TO HIMSELF 

Take a field-glass and look back at your inch 
circle and see if you can locate therein one little 
particle of sand and a dozen atoms of dust rep- 
resenting the Sun and her planets. You have 
stepped oit the twenty-five trillion miles to the 
first or nearest fixed star resembling our Sun — 
and this one is insignificant. 

"Step off 583 feet in another direction and 
locate a tiny particle of sand, and you have cov- 
ered the forty-two trillion miles between earth 
and the star or fixed Sun known as No. 21,185. 
This also is insignificant but is important like 
the first mentioned, being the second nearest 
neighbor. 

"Step off a few more trillion miles, about 750 
feet in another direction and you will have cov- 
ered the distance of fifty-four trillion miles be- 
tween earth and 61 Cygni, (Sirius) the first Sun of 
any significance near the earth, and is only a tiny 
grain of sand in comparison to your six billion mile 
'inch,' 750 feet away. 

"Now climb the Eiffel Tower and look down on 
your square or cubic inch or a glass ball of 
one inch diameter — or put it on top of the Eiffel 
Tower and locate it with a telescope, if possible, 
and compute 72 billion miles to the foot between 
you and the glass ball containing your Sun and 
planets. 

"After you have faintly realized how far away 
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you are from any neighbors, then start a walk of 
530 miles at one hundred forty-four billion miles 
to each step of two feet and cross the visible Uni- 
verse to suns or stars of the 16th magnitude — 
or 198 quadrillion miles from earth. You will 
pass thousands upon thousands of Suns and 
planetary systems in the journey — some of them 
twenty-two thousand times brighter than our 
Sun — and other bodies of beautiful light, thirty- 
six trillions of miles across. 

* 'After walking (in your imagination) 530 
miles and crossing the one hundred ninety-eight 
quadrillion miles of visible universe — imagine 
the entire cubic territory within one immense 
glass ball, say 100 feet in diameter. Now search 
around the wall of this ball from the inside, and 
find, if you can, an opening or two leading to 
other chambers of one hundred ninety-eight 
quadrillion or more miles in diameter — which in 
reality is cubic space or the number of miles men- 
tioned above multiplied by itself twice, or 
7,761,392 (and 45 ciphers) cubic miles of terri- 
tory. 

" Imagine a pile of such glass balls as high and 
as far as the eye can reach, then you can feel 
that there are other things in space besides a 
few physical lights burning inside of this one 
immense ball. 

"Take a large sheet of paper and up in one 
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Visible 

Universe 

198 quadrillion miles 

in diameter. 



"And all the balance a Realm as old in years 
as fifty million times the number of years that 
could be represented by all these cubic miles of 
space. * * * 

(This realm out here is many billion times 
more positive in reality than the visible universe 
because out of this Domain was born and con- 
structed all those suns, planetary systems and 
beautiful bodies of light which you can see with 
the naked eye and telescope at night. 

(A sheet 1000 times this large would give a 
better idea.) 



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ADMONITIONS OF A YOUNG MAN TO HIMSELF 

corner draw a small circle and count it 198 quad- 
rillion miles in diameter, or all those cubic miles 
mentioned above — and all the balance a Realm 
as old in years as Fifty million times the number 
of years that could be represented by all those 
cubic miles of space. A vast Domain of Activity 
where dwell a Race and Government of intel- 
lectual and mental Giants, accomplishing won- 
derful works of which you can form but a vague 
conception. These Giants, not physical in na- 
ture, but Electric Magnetic — each with power 
and energy ten thousand to a million times 
greater than I represent, and intelligence, abil- 
ity, knowledge, ingenuity and efficiency far sur- 
passing the combined ability and ingenuity of 
any one million smart and able men who dwell 
or have so far lived and shown their works on 
earth. 

"Now to cross the visible universe to the burn- 
ing orbs of the 16th magnitude, would require 
twenty thousand years if we found no faster 
means of covering distance than the regular 288,- 
000 miles per second. So we sought and found a 
terrific electric current moving in the direction 
we wished to go, which accelerated our speed to 
an almost incomprehensible degree, and instead 
of thirty-three years to reach the suns or burn- 
ing lights of the first magnitude — some one hun- 
dred ninety eight trillion miles distant — it was a 

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matter of a few hours. And the current led us 
directly into the Nebula in Orion, and there 
opened to my vision a wonderful, beautiful and 
magnificent sight I shall not soon forget and 
which I shall take good care not to be unworthy 
of beholding again and many times. 

" You taught me no fear so I had none when we 
were drawn to an abrupt halt by some very at- 
tractive magnetic field of great size and power, 
in the center of which there formed a Coun- 
tenance similar to ours but enough larger to leave 
no doubt that the Owner of the Countenance was 
very much our superior in every way. By nature, 
you know, I am without weight, but possess at- 
tracting and repelling ability. This Magnetic 
Power by which we were now held prisoner was 
absolutely irresistible, it was so much superior. 
His volume was so much greater than ours, it 
seemed He was only holding His countenance 
small in dimension to more properly converse 
with us. I felt that His features could be one 
hundred or a thousand times as large if He cared 
to enlarge same and my supposition was based 
on the flexibility of His nature or composition, 
which afterwards proved correct — combined with 
expert adaptability. He asked us our mission 
and my Host told Him I was seeking information 
for a scientist on one of the planets. He said He 

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" — And there opened to my vision a wonderful, beauti- 
ful and magnificent sight ! shall not soon forget and 
which I shall take good care not to be unworthy of behold- 
ing again and many times." 



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would take me in charge and allow my Host to 
return to His post and duties. 

"He inquired from which planet I came as 
quite a few were producing Human Magnetic 
Automatic Instruments, so I explained as best I 
could, and He said it was the first instance He had 
so far experienced of any little young human being 
inventing an artificial intelligent magnetic electric 
automaton and sending him to the Mother Gov- 
ernment for information. 

"He was very much amused and said it would 
be nothing to your benefit if He gave advance 
information, because the mind, intellect and 
reason is developed and educated by reading and 
interpreting nature and the purpose thereof — 
something like the solving of a puzzle. 

"He agreed to show me how to make plants and 
animals speak volumes — and still holding me se- 
cure within His powerful magnetic field, He 
directed his course toward a very large world 
circling around a sun twenty-two thousand times 
larger than our sun here and about three hun- 
dred light years removed from our earth — or the 
small distance of eighteen hundred trillion miles 
away. Here other powerful Magnetic and In- 
genious Intellects like His, were at work making 
the little seeds and eggs which contained the 
plans and specifications of trees, grasses, cereals, 
flowers, animals, etc. 

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"I never quite realized before that a little seed 
and egg did actually contain the whole plans and 
specifications of a tree or animal, and the remark- 
ableness of it. 

"He I^r-r'v chemicals, formulas and combina- 
tions of the seventy-two elements so well that a 
scientist or chemist in the flesh would seem an 
ignoramus in comparison. He would take cer- 
tain chemicals and elements and mix them to- 
gether, using tiny magnetic fingers which he 
could protrude or draw in at his discretion — and 
then study for a short time and pluck some mag- 
netic units from Hi- mind and inject them into 
the concoction and form it into a little solid like 
any ordinary seed. I asked Him what He took 
from His mind, and he put the seed in a certain 
I : sition in my mind and I saw a beautiful tree. 
I~ was a conception worked out in detail, on some 
magnetic units and the tiny picture injected into 
the seed. 

"He chuckled and said that when I returned to 
my Earth to call together all the chemists, scien- 
tists and inventors on the face of the globe and 
gather together all the facilities, conveniences, 
instruments and paraphernalia ever used by any 
of them in experiments — and see if they could 
produce the simplest seed or egg which would de- 
velop and grow into a living plant, vegetable, 
flower, tree or animal. 

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"I told Him efforts like this had already been 
made by the smartest and best posted chemists 
and scientists — proving only one thing — that they 
could not accomplish the ingenious creation of even 
the simplest living magnetic electric plant or an- 
imal. Of course these men who try to do it have a 
fair degree of respect for the Invisible, Ingenious, 
Intellect, Mind or Minds and Deft Fingers that 
started each little seed and egg on our big garden 
and laboratory — because they can see, perceive 
and realize that each one is a positive and indis- 
putable reality actually made and created by 
Capable Fingers and an Ingenious Mind or Minds. 
Maybe with some of the simplest seeds and eggs, 
that Mind and Intellect would measure only two 
or three times as smart and ingenious as the best 
posted and capable scientists — or two or three 
times superior — but with each succeeding degree 
of superiority represented by the seed or egg, 
the degrees of superiority increase with the Gen- 
ius or Wizard that invented, created and pro- 
duced those seeds or eggs. Until by the time you 
reach the human infant in its smallest beginning, 
you realize a Mind, Intellect and Ingenuity ten 
thousand times superior to the human mind, in- 
tellect and ingenuity. 

"Then if the human mind and intellect with 
its ten million automatic abilities is ten million 
times superior to and more positive in reality 

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than the rocks and clay Tinder your feet — the 
Minds and Intellects that produced the first liv- 
ing things on earth, are from twenty million to 
ten billion times superior or more positive in 
reality than the earth under your feet, even in 
all its immensity. What earth, planet or sun is 
it to which you can say 'Do this' and automati- 
cally it can do it? A man's head may be small 
in size, but ten million times superior to any 
earth or sun from a standpoint of intelligence 
and ability — and the Inventor of the human head, 
ten billion times superior — or ten thousand times 
superior to and more positive in reality than the 
human brothers and sisters you encounter and 
circulate among each day. 

1 ' The plain unvarnished truth is that man is not 
yet in his ultimate natural state until hatched out 
of the fleshy worm like a moth and is attracted 
into the presence or employ of the Great Big Elec- 
tro Magnetic Inventor or Inventors of the Human 
Magnetic Moths. 

"The Invisible Being or Beings who did the 
inventing are 10 billion times more positive in 
reality than the lifeless inanimate objects about 
you and the Invisible man 10 million times more 
positive in reality. It is a simple case of the 10 
million invisible positive emanating to the 10 bil- 
lion invisible positive which lived before the 
world was made, invented the 10 million positive, 

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is living now and always will be, regardless of 
whether any one '10 million positive' can see it 
or not ; and they see and converse with each other 
in a much superior and more beautiful natural 
state than the Human worms on earth. And these 
facts are 10 million to 10 billion times removed 
from the possibility of dispute, contradiction or 
contrary argument. There is nothing left for one 
to do but believe it. 

"He seemed pleased at my estimation of the 
superior ingenuity, knowledge and ability of the 
Celestial Inventors to the little, young human 
mind, and he volunteered to show me other 
things. 

"He formed himself into the image of a man 
and appalling as it may sound; I was about like 
an ant in size compared to His immensity, and 
found myself standing in the palm of His hand 
which was north pole magnetic. He held me close 
to His forehead and I told Him I judged He was 
vastly more powerful and greater in volume but I 
hardly expected the difference to be this much. 

"He then said, 'When you go back to earth, 
tell your scientific friend to place a little tiny 
ant on his hand and picture himself as Me, and 
notice that the ant is both energetic and intelli- 
gent but that he (the Professor) is somewhat 
more energetic and capable — about ten thousand 
or a million. Then to go a little further and lo- 

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cate with, a powerful microscope, some germs and 
microbes and see how much smaller they are yet 
than an ant, but how tremendous are some in 
ability and deadly treacherous and vicious are 
others — to show that all ability and power can 
not be measured by bulk, size or volume.' 

"He explained to me and demonstrated how 
He could attract and hold prisoner fifty thousand 
units or instruments of efficiency like myself, and 
to show the form He assumes to do this He 
changed himself back into a large magnetic field 
or plane with His commanding tho noble coun- 
tenance in the center of the concentrated volume 
and placed me a great many feet from Him to 
show how powerful and from how great a dis- 
tance he could attract me or similar units a thou- 
sand deep. 

"He had perfect control of this ability and 
showed me how He was capable of arranging 
any number of similar instruments like myself, 
so that each one would come forward in a sys- 
tematic and orderly manner to receive attention 
— even as a business man handles papers, com- 
munications and memorandums. If he is ex- 
tremely busy on some important matter, He can 
place incoming messages in a convenient place 
for sure and positive attention a few minutes or 
hours later, giving attention to hundreds of im- 
portant matters in the course of eight or ten 
hours. 

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"He demonstrated to me just how I could be 
useful and efficient to Him and the other Gar- 
deners on the face of that immense world they 
were planting with seeds and germinating with 
various kinds of eggs. He dictated a simple for- 
mula and instructed me to give it to a certain 
Gentleman to whom He would send me, and then 
holding me in a certain position, repelled me 
head first to another Intellectual, Mental, Mag- 
netic Electric Giant very similar to Himself — ten 
thousand miles distant — in the wee fraction of a 
moment, and I was met with a smiling Coun- 
tenance, similar but noticeably different. He held 
me to one side for a few minutes, as He was very 
busy working on a peculiar looking mixture of 
chemicals — then asked what He could do for 
me. 

"After delivering to Him the formula exactly 
as given me, He mentioned the Gentleman's name 
from whom I came and said it was a mixture 
which would make the seed for a flower with 
many delicate colors and emitting delightful per- 
fume odor. All that remained to be done would 
be a conception worked out in detail and, to my 
surprise, He asked me if I wanted to try to con- 
ceive some flower bush and its blossom. So I did 
the best I could to form a picture in my mind of 
a certain well known rose, and after he extracted 
the magnetic units on which appeared this pic- 

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ture, he looked it over and said I was a regular 
imitator — that this flower was the product of the 
mind of a certain Gardener (mentioning another 
name) and was first seen on the planet located 
at such and such a position in the Universe (mean- 
ing Earth). 

"He asked me to conceive something original, 
which I tried to do, and the result made Him 
laugh — altho He said it was different from any- 
thing yet conceived by anyone and would grow 
and blossom as I had directed. (I want to return 
ere long and see that flower in full bloom and 
learn how far inferior it is to those planted in 
the same vicinity by that Superior Gardener 
whom I admired and liked very much.) . 

"He then repelled me back to my first power- 
ful and eminently respectable Acquaintance, and 
He asked me if I perceived the way or ways 
whereby I could be useful and efficient to Him 
and others of His kind. I ventured to say that 
I did, being capable automatically of executing 
most any requirement up to several million, and 
He said I had the right idea — that at various 
localities in the Mother Realm, there were several 
million keenly felt wants and necessities for those 
abilities, and trillions upon trillions of those 
localities, points and places — and the demand 
rapidly increasing every hour or division of 
time. 

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"I asked Him how many Giants of mind, in- 
tellect and magnetic power there were like Him 
in existence and he almost caused me to think 
that he was joking when He said ' Quadrillions. ' 
But more appalling still, He followed this with 
the remarkable fact that He was more than ten 
billion years of age when the idea was first dis- 
cussed to make gardens or worlds where young 
minds would be born, reared and schooled by 
each other for thirty to one hundred years in a 
somewhat automatic manner and be united with 
physical elements in such a way as to be ab- 
solutely isolated from and independent of the 
Magnetic People so there could positively be no 
interference between the two; and such minds 
that grew up desirable citizens and helpers would 
be accepted for further life and usefulness and 
the undesirables put quietly out of existence. 

' ' The mention of His age gave me a clew to His 
immense size, for if he had added only one more 
inch each million years to His stature, volume, 
knowledge and energy units — and He was as 
small as I at one time — He had lived long enough 
to reach a pretty fair size, something like 
Fifty Million horse power of magnetic elec- 
tric volts concentrated into one stupendous unit 
of intelligent, educated, ingenious, perfectly and 
beautifully controlled strength, energy, power and 
ability. And at this size he would appear a very 

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small physical man if standing on the side of a 
mountain and gazed at from a point five miles 
away, or %88,ooo thousandths part of one second 
away in electric magnetic measurements. 



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CHAPTER VIII 

"My very respectable and admirable Acquaint- 
ance — this powerful Giant of Magnetic Electric 
Energy with perfect control of his flexibility and 
expert adaptability — now suggested that we take 
a little trip over to earth and stand in an advan- 
tageous position as we discussed things further. 

"He held me within his irresistible attraction, 
and His superior size and strength seemed to 
make transmission much faster, as it required 
less time by far for Him to reach this planetary 
system than was consumed by our two smaller 
units in going. 

"To look at an ordinary 18 inch geographical 
globe would give you about the same perspective 
as our view of the earth while we remained sta- 
tioned out there about one second away, or 288,- 

000 miles. 

"He said from now on during our conversation 
He would talk to me as if I were you, the 

1 Scientist. ' 

"I asked Him if He should be credited with 
the honor of conceiving, experimenting with, in- 
venting and perfecting the ultimate models spoken 
of in history as Adam and Eve. 

"He laughed. 'We have lots of fun in this 
Realm joking with the author of Genesis about 

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his Adam and Eve conception, and he laughs at 
his meager ability to reason while yet in the 
clay! 

" 'Xo,' He continued, 'I am not to be given 
credit for the invention of the human family. 
The Creator, Inventor and Perfecter of the physi- 
cal man and woman is a much smarter and more 
powerful Genius than I and much older. You can 
give me credit for the Oak and Hickory trees and 
similar woods also some of the fruits and flow- 
ers.' 

"He said by way of explanation that each 
physical world has her smartest inventors and 
various minor ones at different periods, and like- 
wise the Mother Eealm has hers. 'One thousand 
or more ingenious Inventors had a share in the 
experimenting, planting and creating that was 
done on your earth.' 

" 'How many ingenious and able workmen do 
you estimate it required to form your 66 quin- 
tillion ton earth in its fused and molten condi- 
tion of elements, the number of years consumed 
in the task, and the subsequent cooling of the 
surface with the mixing of hydrogen and oxygen 
into water: and the fair sized task of preparing 
and fertilizing the surface to make it productive. 
Somebody said. "Let there be pyramids" and 
presto — there they were. Those thousands of work- 
men who performed the stupendous task have a 
different idea about the matter ! 

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" 'Now about that Adam and Eve story — if 
you will imagine a large number of the perfected 
germs inoculated into the organs of several hun- 
dred of the models just preceding the human be- 
ing — sometimes referred to as "the missing link" 
— and picture a great many males and as many 
females of every known color and race in many 
parts of the globe, you will have a more nearly 
correct idea of what actually took place. Many 
of them died — one-fourth before six, one-half be- 
fore sixteen — (or too early to mate), and the su- 
perior models preferred to mate with each other, 
assisted by some sure enough and very able, but 
invisible Cupids doing the match-making. 

" 'Sister and brother did not mate — not even 
in the earliest generation, and instead of it being 
a sin for any one Adam or Eve to eat the "famous 
apple," they would have been a most disappoint- 
ing failure if they did not start populating the 
earth with children. By no means were any of 
them supposed to be advocates of race suicide. 
An effort was made however, to endow the minds 
of these models with enough common sense to 
produce only as many children as they could 
properly nourish, rear and train. 

" 'Of course you must not ridicule any man's 
effort to teach good ideas, interpretations, etc., 
but when claims and statements are made by one 
that are beyond all reason, practicability and pos- 
sibility, it might be in order to suggest an im- 

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provement and something rational or that can 
be believed by children after they graduate out 
of fairy-tales and superstition, and not condemn 
an entire code of beliefs because some are absurd 
— particularly in view of the customary teaching 
that if you do not believe every word of the Text 
Book, do not believe a single thing therein. 

" 'Do not continue to harbor the belief forever 
that your particular creed is perfect and there is 
no room for improvement. Children and super- 
stitious grown people will believe most anything 
that is taught them, especially if taught in awe. 
But with the awakening of the reason and com- 
mon sense, they become unbelievers and live the 
physical life only with no conception of another, 
and some get pretty rank. 

" 'The story of Adam and Eve however, does 
not hold a candle to the universal folly, fallacy 
and crime of teaching children "resurrection of 
the body," and an early ending and destruction 
of the world, and foreordination or pre-made 
lives. 

" 'It matters little what becomes of the human 
body after it has given up its powerful Magnetic 
Man. You can bury it and allow it to fall to 
dust in a few short years, or hasten the action 
of decay by cremation and bottle up the ashes 
or scatter them to the wind. For they will be 
of no further use to the Invisible Citizen, who 
is ten million times superior and more positive 

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in reality than his dead body, and who can read- 
ily see the entire operation of burial or crema- 
tion. 

" 'Also the earth is not likely to be destroyed 
very soon, when it has just begun to be in a fair 
productive condition — with still a whole lot of 
room for improvement. The Citizens of the Higher 
Government can hardly foresee when it will be 
necessary to discontinue life on earth. The 
farmer has learned to rotate his crops and fer- 
tilize the ground so it will bear fruit and grain 
perpetually. Likewise, the governments will soon 
have the condition of business and money in such 
shape that each country will perpetually produce 
the finest types and specimens , of human char- 
acters and workers, which are those who have 
had proper influence thrown around them while 
young and had awakened in their mind and in- 
tellect an ambition to be self-made and are 
given a just, fair and square chance to make 
good — to advance and prosper and be an admir- 
able and respectable dynamo of energy — and 
some mothers are the best examples, rearing and 
caring for a large family. 

" 'The consistent, reasonable truth about man's 
nature, both physical and invisible, will have the 
desired effect of starting a young mind toward 
gigantic growth and furnish daily inspiration 
and incentive for greater determination to ad- 

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vance and be loyal to good and beneficial hab- 
its.' " 

"I told him it was the general belief on earth 
that One Genius should be given credit for all 
the suns, planets and visible light orbs. He 
laughed and asked the question, 'What would 
One Employer or Inventor do with the two hun- 
dred billion or more Human Automatic Instru- 
ments already accepted from your little earth 
alone — to say nothing of ten thousand billion to 
come, multiplied by ten million other planets now 
producing and being made ready to produce?' 

11 'Don't let these figures dumfound you, be- 
cause two hundred billion people standing in a 
row would only make a line from earth to Mars 
— a mere hair-line — or % o P art of the dis- 
tance across your planetary system — (or %oo 
part of one inch in the measurements condensed 
to 530 miles across the visible universe) — and 
each one have a small play-space of more than a 
quintillion cubic miles all inside of your little 
planetary system or inch of cubic space.' 

"He then said to tell you that you must not 
try to conceive or know everything before you 
leave Mother Earth — to hold in abeyance a few 
things to learn when you emanate from the clay 
mold like 140,000 others from earth are doing 
each day — fifty-one million each year — although 
He said you had as much right to speculate on 
the future as anyone, especially when the concep- 

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tions and interpretations of other physical minds, 
both ancient and modern, do not satisfy." 

" 'If certain teachings do not have the desir- 
able effect of making you place a high valuation 
on your " scalp," then you certainly have a right 
to invent a simple system of reasonings that 
crush, overwhelm, eliminate and eradicate the 
slightest trace or possibility of doubt as to the 
reality of the Future Life and the substantial 
and reasonable purpose thereof.' " 

"Now I asked Him if it would be easy to ap- 
proach That Genius who perfected the physical 
man and his family, and He explained that the 
Father of the human family was not to be both- 
ered only on matters of very, very vital impor- 
tance." 

"I asked Him if you ought to pray to this Busy 
and Clever Genius for help, etc., and he said 
that if you would eliminate the ' r ' from the word 
and do a little 'paying' to improve yourself and 
relieve the suffering of orphans, sick poor, the 
handicapped, the mistreated, the discouraged, 
and to promote, extend free and improved edu- 
cation and medical help among the young and 
all the ignorant, regardless of age or location on 
the face of the globe, and all other good causes 
and movements, you would be accomplishing 
more results, because nothing talks quite so ef- 

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fectively on earth like the cold, magic, condensed 
energy known as 'Medium of Exchange.' " 

" 'Don't be a weakling — always leaning on 
someone. Your Celestial Inventor and Father 
never fails to show pleasure and gratitude either 
directly or indirectly, to the boy, girl, man or 
woman who continually strives and succeeds in 
helping him or herself daily, and others by ex- 
ample, money and influence. 

" 'Imagine a large human family of a dozen 
children, each one asking his or her mother and 
father to help them with every big or little task. 
How soon would it take the ordinary mother and 
father to insist that the child help him or herself, 
explaining that they acquire or develop no good 
or benefit, no confidence or strength, no ingenuity 
or ability — if another solve the problem or per- 
form the task. How much help do you estimate 
you are liable to get from the Father of a family 
of trillions of members? 

" 'The manly or womanly boy or girl disdains 
and, if necessary, spurns the help or assistance 
of another on any problem or task that he or she 
can possibly solve, perform or execute him or 
herself. That boy or girl is most admired who 
resolves to be independent and self-made, and 
usually their pride will eliminate the chance of 
any one speaking contemptuously of the archi- 
tect. 

" 'One of the oldest and most important arts 
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in existence has been all too lightly thot of, 
studied, taught, experimented with, dwelt upon 
and reduced to a science — on your earth — and 
that is the art of "Man in the self-making." If 
you would be made a giant of ability, energy and 
knowledge — nowhere can the old saying be more 
appropriately applied than here — "If you want 
the thing done right do it yourself. " 

" ' Succeed in getting a boy or girl interested 
in him or herself — and inherited weaknesses, en- 
vironments, circumstances and oppositions of all 
character can be overcome and risen above — with 
the possible exception of insanity. He or she 
will read rules of etiquette, good breeding, prop- 
er conduct, politeness, beneficial habits, health 
cautions — surround him or herself with pictures 
of famous men and women and study the recorded 
life of each — and emanate from poverty or dis- 
advantageous surroundings, influences and neg- 
ligence a well-bred, sensible, courteous, accom- 
plished, well-behaved and well-mannered young 
man or woman capable of entering and feeling 
perfectly at ease in any home however cultured 
or refined the family. 

" 'Where is there a teacher who can command 
and demand equal study, application, progress 
and self-denial of shallow, profitless play — to that 
which you can get out of self? Where is there a 
task-master, officer, employer or father who can 
spur, punish, incite and impel his employee, slave 

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or child with equal sarcasm, shame, ridicule, taunts, 
irony, disgust, anger, humuliation, contempt, ad- 
monition, rebuke, argument and reasoning — as 
one can himself? 

" ' Awake this ambition and aspiration in the 
youth and with the proper kind of daily inspira- 
tion and incentive fanning and strengthening this 
flame more and more as the weeks and months 
pass by, you have the secret of all the large self- 
made intellects and fortunes; both physical and 
mental on earth and the Giants of the Superior 
Government of which I am only one. Awake the 
realization in his or her mind once that he or she 
is capable of gigantic growth in mind, intellect, 
will-power and ability and they will take care of 
the balance. Maybe take advantage of the coach- 
ing of a college or university, but if out of the 
question, will pick up the help, advice, sugges- 
tions and instructions of experts and authorities 
from printed records called books, even if it be 
only at the rate of sixty minutes per day. This 
is 365 hours per year or 3650 hours in ten years. 
One fact mastered in each of those hours would 
be 3650 facts, or quite a considerable knowledge 
and information. A man can live to get six times 
this much at that rate alone if he insures it, and 
with the thirst created, cultivated and intensified, 
he can double or quadruple the speed of acquisi- 
tion. 

<( 'If. a balloon had intelligence and was cap- 
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able of unlimited expansion, and took delight in 
growth, you can imagine quite a large sphere in 
a few years. This is what takes place inside the 
human skull, only in a most phenominal concen- 
trated and condensed manner. It expands rapid- 
ly and with the increase of the intake valve it 
grows at a phenomenal rate, drawing in all the 
people of the city, all the real estate, then all 
the people of the country and square miles of 
territory therein, then the entire surface of the 
earth and all the people and animals thereon; 
then swallows up the earth and millions of cubic 
miles of space ; then engulfs the moon and the 
sun which could hold a million earths; then the 
other planets of Old Sol and all their moons; then 
reaches out and engulfs all other suns, planets 
and bodies of light even to the billions thereof 
and the numberless dectillions of cubic miles of 
visible space; — and not being satisfied with this 
gigantic greed, it condenses and crowds all this 
vast and undigested food or contents up into one 
tiny ball and creates a vacuum which can 
hold a million such quantities or an unlimited 
amount — then fills in the vacuum with good imag- 
inary Domains of Activity. In the meantime the 
powerful manager of the mental balloon, called 
the intellect, returns and jerks off the crust of 
the earth and throws the red-hot ball into the sun, 
crushes and pulverizes the surface and analyzes 
the seventy-two elements and their combinations 

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and studies the animal and vegetable life, even to 
the atoms, microscopic germs, small animals and 
MAX, taking and tearing him to pieces and 
learning him. 

" 'Awake a boy or girl to the remarkable and 
fascinating ability of the mind and intellect and 
he or she will admire the beautiful and wonderful 
automatic operation and control of same — and 
seek to develop it to its greatest and most power- 
ful strength and capacity. 

" 'There is enough printed literature of greater 
or less importance on your earth to keep a human 
skull taking it in ten or fifteen hours per day for 
ten thousand years, but the great majority of 
people have only one or two hours per day to 
read, and only a short life of thirty-three aver- 
age up to one hundred years maximum. It takes 
a boy or girl of very unusual education to pick 
out the diamonds, pearls and gold nuggets of lit- 
erature. 

" '"Where is there a brief and practical guide 
for the aspiring young in the acquisition of knowl- 
edge ? How many millions are filling up on light, 
shallow trash in the shape of five and ten cent 
novels and sensational obscene fiction. The thirst 
for reading is very valuable indeed — if gratified 
by solid, elevating, ennobling, inspiring and edu- 
cating records.' " 

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"I asked him what you ought to do about that 
large fortune with the millions of easy income 
which was yours for a little further effort and 
persistence, and he said truly this was a most 
serious temptation to be confronted with, because 
the tremendous inducement would incite the nec- 
essary efforts to realize success if the energy and 
determination was directed toward that attain- 
ment. He said to ignore and spurn it with high 
scorn. That if you had not already been cursed 
with an avalanche of silver and gold ' merit chips ' 
by the will of some relative — bv, all means not to 
invite and deliberately fight for the curse to be 
showered upon you. 

" 'Why is it such a crime to steal money,' He 
continued. 'For the simple reason that you have 
not earned it and thereby derived no benefit from 
the acquisition thereof. How can it be less con- 
temptible, less dishonorable, less unmanly or any 
more beneficial to accept it if given to you un- 
earned. Money should be absolutely uninterest- 
ing and unattractive to you unless earned and 
earned in a legitimate, respectable and praise- 
worthy manner. 

" 'BE A MAN. Run the gauntlet of superior 
unsympathetic intellects and their discipline. 

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Start at the bottom on an equal footing with any 
commonly educated boy, work shoulder to shoul- 
der with him and earn advancement purely on 
individual and personal merit, without special 
assistance, weight or pull. 

" 'Living in a dollar-and-a-half per week room 
and eating fifteen cent meals is like basking in 
the palace of a king and eating the "nectar of 
gods," if you are doing it to be independent, 
self-supporting and democratic.' " 

" 'You cannot know the trials, problems, hard- 
ships and difficulties of other young and unas- 
sisted citizens of your own or any other country, 
unless you actually jump overboard, earn and try 
to exist on $15 per month — the enormous wages 
paid messenger boys. The value of the experience 
cannot be computed in dolars and cents. It 
cannot be purchased with millions nor can the in- 
valuable benefit be acquired and possessed in any 
other way.' 

" 'Advance quickly as human effort can make 
it possible. The sight of nice clean food and sa- 
vory dishes will incite you to greater effort, more 
intense application and mad determination. No one 
knows the keen value of nickels and pennies bet- 
ter than the boy or girl who is compelled by piti- 
less necessities to tread on tiny stepping-stones of 
five cent pieces from one end of the heartless 
month to the other, growled and gnawed at by 
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ADMONITIONS OF A YOUNG MAN TO HIMSELF 

" 'What is it that prevents suicide among such 
boys and girls? Contempt for cowardice and 
their scorn to be conquered or overcome by any 
conditions, circumstances or unjust treatment of 
mean, greedy and ignoble employers. It is brav- 
ery that makes them swallow the lump that con- 
tinually rises in their throats at the unjust, unfair 
and unequitable distribution of profits. They earn 
$25 for some miserly Shylock and receive $1. He 
has a $6000 automobile, a $100,000 home and eats 
$3 meals. The little boy and girl "slaves" at his 
factory or store walk to and from work, sleep in 
rooms alive with revolting, loathsome bedbugs 
and cockroaches, and eat food that the pup in 
their employer's home would sniff at and walk 
away.' " 



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A substantial ladder to climb. 



:arn fac 


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EARN PER 


LEARN FAC r 


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EARN PER 


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MONTH 


PER MONTH AGE 


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40 


16 


$40 


466 


42 


$466 


44 


17 


44 


512 


43 


512 


48 


18 


48 


563 


44 


563 


53 


19 


53 


620 


45 


620 


58 


20 


58 


682 


46 


682 


64 


21 


64 


750 


47 


750 


70 


22 


70 


825 


48 


825 


77 


23 


77 


908 


49 


908 


85 


24 


85 


998 


50 


998 


94 


25 


94 


1098 


51 


1098 


103 


26 


103 


1208 


52 


1208 


114 


27 


114 


1329 


53 


1329 


125 


28 


125 


1462 


54 


1462 


135 


29 


135 


1608 


55 


1608 


148 


30 


148 


1769 


56 


1769 


163 


31 


163 


1946 


57 


1946 


179 


32 


179 


2141 


58 


2141 


197 


33 


197 


2355 


59 


2355 


217 


34 


217 


2590 


60 


2590 


239 


35 


239 


2849 


61 


2849 


263 


36 


263 


3134 


62 


3134 


289 


37 


289 


3448 


63 


3448 


318 


38 


318 


3793 


64 


3793 


350 


39 


350 


4172 


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385 


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41 


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$50,000 per annum. 
The net culmination of this hard work, persistence and 
determination will be great wealth of knowledge repre- 
sented by millions of memorized facts — and great ability, 
represented by powerful earning capacity and experience — 
all of which wealth and possessions you take with you to 
the Perpetual Government. 

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" 'Work hard and advance rapidly. Step from 
one firm to another if they try to make you stick 
to the chump's wages. Step from the $15 job to 
the $20— $25— $30 and $40 job. If you are only 
sixteen years of age then, you see to it at least 
that you advance at the rate of 10% compound 
increase each year and anticipate this speed, de- 
gree or schedule of progress as much as possible 
but at that degree you will be a $50,000 man at 
sixty-five and who can look upon you with disdain 
at any stage or period of the growth. 

" 'Money is hard to earn. If it was not, you 
would realize and derive no benefit from the ac- 
quisition thereof. There are hundreds of com- 
mendable, noble reasons and incentives for the 
earning of money, and there are as many hundred 
points of merit you will develop, acquire, culti- 
vate and realize in the pursuit of legitimate, hon- 
orable and respectable business. 

" 'Any teacher who speaks contemptuously of 
self-earned money — turn a deaf ear to this mis- 
conception of nobility. The self-made man in 
church who responds with a one hundred dollar 
donation to any good cause is distinctly the most 
respected, honored and admired. The self-made 
man at the head of a large business organization 
who employs ten or twenty thousand men and 
women — who in turn support families — is cer- 
tainly well thot of, respected, admired and en- 
dorsed by all those families at least, especially 

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Admonitions of a young mam to himself 

and particularly if he pays them liberal wages or 
an equitable share of the profits in commis- 
sions. 

" 'A $50,000 self-made man is superior to a 
$1200 or a $12,000 man, regardless of age — most 
certainly, if he is the same age. If you are a 
$50,000 man, you will succeed in getting the $50,- 
000 per annum. If not in salary, then in salary, 
self-created income and profit on investments. 
There is no indication or proof of the merit and 
ability like the realization of the actual money 
for the ability. 

If you are getting or realizing it, there can be 
little question, dispute or argument that you have 
attained $50,000 ability. 

" 'Delight in the acquisition of knowledge and 
education during all these years, and with the 
attainment of the $50,000 ability, you will also 
possess several million dollars' worth of mental 
and intellectual wealth in the nature of records, 
memory, culture and accomplishments, which of 
course like the abilities, are indestructible and 
capable of perpetual life. 

"In support and corroboration of this state- 
ment, he called forth from different points a few 
men and women who came from our little earth 
three to five thousand years ago and I recognized 
the names as some of whom I had read in early 
history. The age had the effect of intensifying 
and strengthening all the commendable traits of 

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noble men and women of which yon are familiar, 
and these people were very young compared to 
the age of others there and the future before them. 

"He said history should be interesting to you, 
because over in This Domain is the reflection of 
all those characters in the most beautiful realism. 
You can actually meet and converse with them. 

"Also He said you should value time very 
highly during your short schooling on earth, call- 
ing attention to facts as follows :" 

" 'Numberless billions of years have passed, and 
numberless are yet to come. Out of these many 
billions of future years, you have only the tiny 
little space of 33 years (average) or 60 to 100 at 
the very most — in which to prepare yourself to 
enjoy all this indefinite period of future time. 

" 'Next time you pass a telephone pole, draw 
a line on same one inch from ground and count 
this one hundred years. The physical life is be- 
low the mark and the Invisible but Superior and 
more Powerful Life above the line; only the pole 
should reach to the sky and clear out of sight. 

" 'Looking at time spent on earth from this 
point of view, you should value every moment 
very highly indeed, in fact, be very jealous of 
that time which friends would have you lose in 
shallow, profitless recreation; time lost by work- 
ing desultorily and time lost in day dreaming. 
When you have a valuation on time of about $1 

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per minute you have the right idea and have 
reached both a deep and high state of education. 

" 'Looking at man's wealth from this point of 
view, everybody is equal, except the insane, be- 
cause everybody has sixteen or seventeen hours 
each day which is or should be free from sleep — 
or 960 to 1020 minutes. It is utilizing these min- 
utes or turning them into the indestructible 
wealth and power of ability, knowledge, educa- 
tion and culture — that make them valuable. 

" 'That man, woman, boy or girl who has a 
high valuation on life, character and the possi- 
bilities of attaining equal ability and merit to the 
most gigantic men and women of the present and 
past generations — is wise, shrewd, prudent, sharp 
and smart if he values highly every one of those 
960 to 1020 minutes each day, and far from fails 
to turn each one into a golden nugget of ability, 
knowledge, education and culture. 

" 'Despise not those little periods of 30 or 45 
minutes while you are penned up in a street car. 
If you can turn these scraps of time into golden 
knowledge by memorizing thirty or forty words 
in each one of these thirty or forty minutes — 
twice daily — you can feel perfectly at home in a 
group of professors within ten years. Sixty words 
per day would be 18,000 in a year of three hun- 
dred days or 180,000 in ten years. 

" 'The possession of knowledge by memory is 
the only substantial and durable wealth in exist- 

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ence. You take every "penny" or "grain" of it 
with you the minute you encounter or meet that 
inevitable mishap which separates you from your 
clay mold. 

" 'If you could develop and acquire ability and 
knowledge without ever seeing a dollar, you 
would be quite equal to the man or woman who 
sought and acquired millions. But "medium of 
exchange" called money is of such importance in 
the automatic garden and school of Human Mag- 
netic Electric Automatic Instruments, that it by 
no means must be despised. Money is very diffi- 
cult to earn or realize — due to the keen competi- 
tion for same by all those who have not been 
cursed with a legacy and this represents by far 
the largest and best part of the human family. 
If it was not hard to earn or realize, it would not 
be admirable or beneficial to acquire it. 

" 'To work, study, strive and apply yourself 
just as hard to earn or realize merit marks or 
laurel wreaths, would have the same net result on 
your proficiency and ability as the earning of 
money. These little dollars can be looked upon 
as one form of merit marks, but by no means the 
only ones to seek or strive for. Money can sat- 
isfy hundreds of big and little needs, wants — and 
place you in a position to perform hundreds of 
large and small acts of nobility — but it cannot 
buy physical muscles. If you want physical 

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strength and muscles you must necessarily de- 
velop them. 

" 'If you want good lungs you must develop 
them also — by habitual deep breathing of fresh 
air. 

" 'If you want a good stomach and good blood, 
you must eat proper food and drink proper 
liquids. 

" *If you wish to add thirty years to the thirty- 
three average — or $11,176,140 worth of minutes — 
you must have and insure good health and strong 
constitution, vitality, large strong lungs and ab- 
stain from certain foods, liquids and observe cer- 
tain good and practical habits. All the books, lit- 
erature and money in the world cannot give or 
buy you one sinew of muscle, but ten minutes of 
vigorous physical culture each morning and eve- 
ning, and thru the day welcome every occasion, 
excuse or opportunity for physical exertion or 
exercise — and the habit will result in the devel- 
opment of an athlete of no mean strength and 
powerful muscles, in a few years. This practice 
will not only insure good health, strong constitu- 
tion, great vitality, large lungs and a good car- 
riage but additional pleasure, joy, happiness and 
the possibility of many more years added to "life 
in the mold." 

" 'Look about you at the various men of "one 
ambition" who have acquired money and its 
equivalent only to realize to their deep sorrow, 
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regret and remorse that they neglected other im- 
portant ambitions, interests and desirable pur- 
suits in their blind admiration for the "money- 
getting habit" and its accompanying merits. 
They want health, muscles and strength of con- 
stitution, vitality, strong lungs and those addi- 
tional years of physical life which only good 
health can give and would spend thousands, even 
millions of dollars for that condition which can 
only be possessed by the religious observation of 
a very simple physical culture habit from youth 
or girlhood. 

" ' Twenty minutes out of 1020 — ten at the 
beginning and ten at the close of the day — seems 
very insignificant and easily afforded, but it 
takes quite a goodly amount of will-power, de- 
termination, strength of purpose and religious 
loyalty to ambition — to do it. This is the way 
and only way health, strength and additional years 
in the clay can be made possible — worth thousands 
of dollars or millions according to the depths of 
your education and intensity of your ambitions. 
It is very, very valuable and money cannot buy 
it but the observation of a simple little habit will 
go the biggest part of the way toward insuring it. 

" *If you do not see the value of the habit, and 
do not form, practice and be persistently and re- 
ligiously loyal thereto — who is the loser. You 
alone. The world is not — the Celestial Govern- 
ment less. You alone can develop, acquire and in- 

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sure it. No wealth can buy it and an old man 
cannot develop it. If you fail to insure it by a 
few good and simple habits formed and made an 
integral part of your life, religion and character 
at youth — you are without it when you most need 
the health and you alone are the pitiful loser. 

" 'You may have money but no health or actual 
wealth. You may have money and wealth of 
knowledge and still not have health — all due to 
your own negligence while young or lack of strong 
conviction as to the value of health when 40, 50 or 
60 years of age or lack of knowledge how to in- 
sure it while at the proper age. 

" 'The angelic idealist says it is a "sin" to use 
slang, but what is that which fails to insure $11,- 
176,140 worth of "life in the development" of 
which this many million dollars cannot buy one 
particle, minute or degree. It is contemptible, 
despicable, criminal carelessness, self-negligence 
and self-deprivation. If you can afford the dis- 
dainful and shameful deficiency, certainly the bal- 
ance of the human family can. You have only 
one chance, one opportunity, one physical life. 



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" ' You may advance theories as to why you cannot 
earn a larger salary or income each succeeding year or 
theories as to why you cannot memorize learning and 
knowledge day by day — but what argument can you ad- 
vance for not developing large muscles, a powerful 
physique and constitution — it requires neither money nor 
brains. Your only excuse could be a physical handicap or 
pure unadulterated laziness.' " 



CHAPTER X 

" 'Above all you should place a high valuation 
on your "scalp," "head," "character" and 
"life." 

" 'Say you have thoroughly established the 
habits to insure sixty-five years of healthy phys- 
ical life on earth — or at $1 per minute of seven- 
teen conscious hours per day — this alone is worth 
$24,199,500. 

" 'More than one man has spent this much to 
add ten more years to his physical life, thinking, 
like a certain well known inventor on your earth, 
that physical death "ends all." But with the 
complete, thorough and overwhelming realization 
that it does by no means "end all" with desirable 
citizens — (on the contrary that the reality of the 
human family and governments on earth is like 
the tiny flame of a candle to the Sun compared 
to the reality of the Higher, Superior and Older 
Government, out of which was born this tiny 
world, planetary system and small visible uni- 
verse) — you get a new and entirely different 
view or value of life. 

" 'To see some people fight against physical 
death with millions of dollars and superhuman 
will power, one is impressed with the fact that 

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life must be worth something. What is there at- 
tractive or interesting about it. All you get the 
live long day is pleasure and joy for your labor 
and diligence or the equivalent thereto in money. 
You are a slave to natural requirements and you 
are paid only in pleasure or just life without 
pleasure. 

" 'No one is compelled to be unhappy or mis- 
erable. He or she can throw this off his or her 
mind by diverting attention to some pleasant sub- 
ject, recreation or ambition. 

" 'You are the most cleverly constructed auto- 
matic instrument ever invented by human or Su- 
perhuman intellect. You are capable of the most 
intense slavery and automatically made glad to 
do the task by the pleasure and joy you get out 
of it. The more gigantic you are in ability, mind, 
intellect, knowledge and energy, the more keenly 
and deeply is felt the pleasure. 

" 'Unlike the horse, which has only three or 
four pleasures for his hard work and slavery, you 
are endowed with the ability to feel, know, ex- 
perience and realize a thousand or more pleas- 
ures as remuneration for your work and efficiency. 
If you are not happy and interested every hour 
of the day, every day of the week, you are capa- 
ble of being this way, if dissipation and bad 
habits have not been practiced to the verge of 
insanity or imbecility. 

" 'Your pleasures and interests control or gov- 
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ern your destiny. Indulge in the wrong ones, 
practicing undesirability of citizenship, and they 
and you will end surely and ignominiously at phys- 
ical death. But indulge in the admirable, com- 
mendable, beneficial pleasures and you can wisely 
place a valuation on same, because they will not 
die when you emanate from the clay mold, but 
just start to live in a first-class, substantial and 
durable manner. 

" 'Now you can continue to value time at One 
dollar per minute and add thirty seven million 
dollars for each little century — and in all prob- 
ability add in the other seven hours of the Twen- 
ty-four or Fifteen million dollars more — or in all 
Fifty-two million dollars worth of life per cen- 
tury. 

" 'Some early characters in history have lived 
up Five billion dollars worth of life so far, and 
have in view Fifty or a Hundred billion dollars 
more of life and then some. But to confine your- 
self to a conservative unit or reasonable valua- 
tion on your head, character and life — hold it 
at the small sum of One Billion (720,000 cubic feet 
of silver dollars) or equal to about twenty cen- 
turies of time. 

" 'A certain well known Example of noble liv- 
ing on earth departed to the Higher Government 
about that long ago and is still very young indeed 
and greets hundreds of brand-new admirers each 
day. 

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" 'With a billion dollar valuation on life, yon 
can more definitely and distinctly place a value 
on each, of your pleasures. With one billion dol- 
lars to divide among One thousand pleasures, you 
could hold each at a million dollars, but some 
are worth more than a million and others less. 

" 'The greatest should be "delight in ability. " 
Nothing equals it nor was intended to equal it. 
This pleasure is more nearly perpetual than any 
and is productive of the greatest known power, 
strength of mind, intellect, will, ingenuity and 
energy. Some are held spellbound at the marvel- 
ous ability and possibility of the intellect. In- 
deed! the wonderful capabilities and operation of 
the mind is the greatest known source of self- 
inspiration particularly when you realize perfect 
control of all habits, natural inclinations and ten- 
dencies. The admiration of any man-made, gi- 
gantic and beautifully controlled machine has no 
comparison to the admiration one can have of a 
powerful mind when once it is faintly compre- 
hended. Your "delight in ability" should be 
worth one hundred million dollars. 

" 'To take pleasure in laziness, indolence and 
idleness is certain spiritual death. You are an 
instrument of efficiency, capable of doing things 
(or as a certain textbook says, "electricity is a 
substance capable of doing work"). You had 
better learn to like and enjoy it far above any 
other fun or pleasure if you would be of value 
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to any Government or employer on earth or out 
in this Beautiful Universe. 

" 'Yet the children of your nation are taught 
that Heaven is a place of eternal rest, play and 
recreation which is absolutely the utmost opposite 
extreme of the truth. Nothing could be more 
distasteful and detestable to a diligent, industri- 
ous, energetic mind. 

" 'Your next greatest pleasure should be "de- 
light in the acquisition of knowledge and the pos- 
session of same by memory." If it still remains 
in books or papers after you read it and not your 
mind also, of what use or value is it to you after 
your mind leaves the earth? 

" 'When you harbor the belief, opinion or 
feeling that there is no room for improvement in 
your education, right then and there you are 
blinded with contemptible and ignominious van- 
ity, conceit, ignorance and egotism, the most suf- 
focating and detrimental enemies of any man or 
earthly organization. After you have learned a 
million things, there is still room and great need 
for knowledge of fifty million more things. This 
is a thirst, hunger, yearning and craving which 
is capable of perpetual life — and a pleasure, joy 
and source of interest productive of the greatest 
known wealth irrespective of quantity, durability 
or power of all other so-called possessions. 

" 'Compare the value of this thirst and hunger 
with that manifested by liquor fiends — opium, 

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eocain and ether users: cigarette and tobacco 
fiends ; card-playing, cheap novel and fiction fiends ; 
dance, gambling and vulgar show fiends; mi- 
sers and money fiends of all character — and the 
loathsome, treacherous, abominable and disgust- 
ing lust fiends with which your world is becom- 
ing so alarmingly polluted. 

" ' Which of these thirsts or pleasures do you 
consider the superior. One of them is worth a 
hundred million dollars and the other far less 
than a void because it hinders, prevents and 
makes impossible the possession or practice of 
the desirable one. 

" 'The third greatest might be referred to as 
the pleasure of having loved ones — a brother, sis- 
ter, mother, father, aunt, uncle, cousin, sweet- 
heart, wife, child or grandchild and maybe a 
chum or two. To some, these blood relatives, or 
equivalent, are a great source of satisfaction, 
happiness, and are held very dear. The magnetic 
relationship between their hearts is a veritable 
fountain of delight, gratification, joy, gladness 
and pleasant companionship. It would appear at 
some funerals that this love tie — or the tie that 
binds — is very intense and of a consequence very 
dearly and highly valued. To see how some of 
these mothers can love would give one the im- 
pression that this family tie or relationship is 
very valuable, powerful and significant. Cer- 
tainly you should value the reality and compan- 
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ionship of some of your loved ones at least and al- 
together at about fifty million or more.' " 

" 'The dishonorable, indecent, villainous scoun- 
drels and criminals circulating in respectable so- 
ciety, need hardly bother about a valuation on 
the companionship of loved ones — because if not 
already excluded from the family group, the con- 
tempt will quickly heal the heart- wound of a 
mother as she gets a full view of his unclean, 
unmanly, disgraceful habits and character — from 
her inconspicuous viewpoint of the Superior and 
Invisible Nature, not many feet away at times 
and whose reality is ten, maybe fifteen million 
times more positive than the reality of the inan- 
imate objects about you or on which you stand — 
and one hundred forty thousand more people each 
day awake to this beautiful or cold stern reality, 
only too late to be of any further benefit or inspira- 
tion. This means your mother is a powerful liv- 
ing reality tho departed for many years, and not 
a thin phantom, as you are in the unconscious habit 
of " seeing' ' when giving the matter a passing 
thot, and she is just as interested, proud or 
ashamed of her second son as if still in the flesh 
tho not permitted by compassionless nature to 
give personal advice, furnish incentive and inspi- 
ration. It comes right home to you, doesn't it, 
and makes you ashamed of the various violations 
of sacred and respected customs. It is not always 
expedient nor conducive to your character and 

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acceptability to give way to the feeling that you 
can do as yon please regardless of what it is just 
because yon worked hard all day and enjoyed a 
measure of success. 

" * There is the pleasure of music, humor and 
laughter. These are worth fifty million or more 
to the clean, efficient, energetic, likeable, honorable 
and manly individual. They are of little perma- 
nent value to an undesirable citizen. 

" 'There is the sacred and noble pleasure of 
condescending to create and rear children. A 
thousand comic artists have for their subject a 
baby or child, and ten thousand funny, laughable 
heart-bubbling antics, remarks and acts have yet 
been unpublished which it is yours to witness 
and experience for the possession of two or more 
of these priceless toys. The teaching of your chil- 
dren how to be well-bred, respectable and admi- 
rable should be a great pleasure — and the only 
successful way to teach is by example first, then 
firm and positive requirements, second and inci- 
dentally set a good example for other children 
at the same time. 

" 'To say nothing of the deep sacred duty of 
leaving a reproduction or two of yourself on 
earth to help perpetuate the automatic birth of 
Human Automatons, and keep alive your own 
chain of descendants. Think you it will be of no 
interest to trace your ancestors thru thirty thou- 
sand or more generations by the sure and accu- 
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rate method of personal meeting and conversa- 
tion? The fact of your reality is good evidence 
that it has not thus far been broken. 

" 'What honor have you to claim if you cause 
the branch to cease bearing. If you leave the 
duty to your brother — still what credit is due 
you for the prolongation of the family name. If 
you do not leave a reproduction on earth so far 
as your responsibility can be fair-square and equi- 
tably judged, you have exterminated the human 
family on earth, because if everybody followed 
the example which you set, this would be the 
net result. You are never responsible for more 
than your share of this vital, serious and sacred 
duty — but you are responsible for that much, 
even tho it be one seventeen hundred millionth, but 
that seventeen hundred millionth you value at one 
billion dollars and very wisely so. 

" 'You are more or less grateful to your moth- 
er and father for giving or making possible this 
billion dollar life of yours. Nothing will please 
them better than to show your gratitude by creat- 
ing in turn some more little billion dollar lives, 
who will and can only be grateful to you and 
their mother for the kindness and nobility. 

" 'You pray to the Inventor thanking Him for 
your life as a trillionth descendant of His Family, 
and if He heard you at all He would say good 
humoredly, "Don't thank me — thank your moth- 
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er and father, even as some little fellows are wait- 
ing to thank you." 

" 'The lust vultures whose villainous delight it 
is to feed on the souls, virtue, shame, honor, mod- 
esty, morality, character, respectability, purity 
and reputation of pretty young, possible moth- 
ers — need not bother to concern or interest them- 
selves in prolonging or perpetuating their kind. 
The good people are very soon going to recognize 
them as wholesale murderers and treat them ac- 
cordingly — because when they have been success- 
ful in persuading, enticing and influencing a girl 
to start on the road to prostitution or habitual 
adultery — they have murdered the beautiful young 
woman — for when cast out from decent, respect- 
able and honorable society on earth, how can she 
"presto" be clean, pure and refined for associa- 
tion with the cultured and honorable of Heaven. 
These girls all expect to suffer spiritual death 
and will boast of the fact when once hardened 
to the vicious habits of adultery and the accom- 
panying indulgences — be it in public places or in 
the secret of some home kept up by an unsuspect- 
ing, trusting and honorable husband. 

" 'These "soul cannibals," "chicken-hawks," 
these carnal, sensual and lewd minded lust fiends 
are like hungry wolves prowling around among 
young girls, wearing the most courteous, polite, 
cultured and talented mask of gentlemanly love- 
making ability, that only the shrewdest girls of 
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high moral character can see the vicious, villain- 
ous criminal behind the acting. They get about 
the same character of pleasure out of the practice 
that a snake does out of each little wren he charms 
and devours. 

" 'Sometimes a brother, father, lover, husband 
and even one of the little wrens herself will stop 
the progress of one of these vicious creatures 
prowling around in gentleman's clothes, by the 
praiseworthy bullet and thereby save one hun- 
dred, maybe two hundred other little possible 
mothers. 

" 'Influence or cause one girl to be barren or 
morally unfit to bear children, and you have pre- 
vented the birth of another mother, her little 
baby girl and ten thousand descendants. Meas- 
ure the extent of the crime if you can. 

" 'There are millions of these menaces to re- 
spectable society on earth — all more or less ca- 
pable of mock love-making to accomplish their 
vicious purpose — then watch for the first excuse 
to cast the young woman aside to make room for 
a new victim. The record of some mashers, flirts, 
or sports is "a different one every night." The 
experts know the weaknesses of the female sex 
better than the business from which they earn 
money. They are an authority on the subject of 
conquering virtuous girls. They make it a study 
and practice makes proficiency. 

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" ' Municipalities license "the necessary evil?" 
but these outcasts are chiefly patronized by 
"mamma's faultless little school-boy" in droves 
of thousands. If not at night, then Saturday or 
Sunday P. M. When these young bucks gradu- 
ate from the " unsportsman-like " practice of pat- 
ronizing a common prostitute, they seek "undam- 
aged goods" and become professionals like their 
big brothers. 

" l Opportunities of all character always pre- 
sent themselves to those who have the conception 
formed in advance and are laying for, always in 
the market or on the look-out for that oppor- 
tunity. 

" 'They meet virtuous and respectable girls — 
frivolously or coquettishly inclined — in a hun- 
dred different ways, and seek to be well pleasing 
in their estimation to get an invitation to call or 
take them out. An automobile is the greatest 
magnet or drawing-card. They save up money 
to get one of these "chicken traps" and 
assistants. 

" 'Nearly every owner or driver of one of 
these pleasure cars has a list of 25 to 300 names, 
addresses and phone numbers of young girls and 
men's wives who will exchange their virtue and 
shame for an automobile ride — or seem possible 
recruits. There are some three million of these 
"chicken magnets" in your country alone and 
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your country is only one-seventeenth of the earth's 
population. 

" 'You may form a faint idea, but what is it 
compared to that which the one hundred million 
Judges see every night. Nearly every Judge has 
among his characters to be watched, an adulterer 
who sins in secret and under cover of darkness. 
If the Judges should all be allowed to reveal 
themselves to physical people within the short 
period of one week, about a hundred million hu- 
man beings would run like cockroaches. 

" 'One should not necessarily be decent be- 
cause these Judges are watching you, but be 
ashamed to do anything in secret or private life 
that you would not do in the full knowledge of 
your respectable friends, because* it is unmanly 
and dishonorable. If you respect self how can 
you be indecent in your own presence ? 

" 'Only use the knowledge of these Judges as 
a last resort, when temptation seems to blind 
your conscience, then remember that in cases of this 
kind They are watching you more closely because 
here is a test of your power or ability to resist. 
The Citizens of the Supreme Government have 
rules, regulations, laws and instructions to ob- 
serve and anyone not good at resisting the desire 
or impulse to violate same, in moments of care- 
lessness and independence would not be desirable, 
because the slight violation of some rules may re- 
sult in dire calamity to self, thousands of others 

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and valuable construction work. Has not the 
violation of rules caused many terrible wrecks of 
trains, automobiles and ships on your little 
earth? 

" 'What chance has one of these " mother mur- 
derers'' got with that Invisible but Inevitable 
Jury which he cannot avoid. And yet without a 
valuation on his "scalp" or "head" he will not 
care. The revelation of a hundred relatives and 
billions of invisible citizens, many of them directly 
at his side during each day, may awaken a desire to 
live longer than the physical life and to respect 
the judgment of a group of Honorable Citizens as 
to his acceptability for future life and cause him 
to place a valuation on his head. 

" 'These Judges are glad to be seen thru the 
mental eyes of knowledge and reason and none 
but a diligent student of man and his purpose in 
the universe can find them. This education or 
knowledge will completely supplant the natural 
fear of physical death and cause a superior kind 
of valuation on life-in-the-clay — whereas a phys- 
ical revelation of Themselves would cause whole- 
sale self-inflicted physical death among the shal- 
low, ignorant and cowardly, because the discipline 
and heavy pressure of earth's necessities are 
sometimes almost unbearable.' " 



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CHAPTER XI 

" 'It resolves itself down to one thing. Do you 
like to live ? How much do you like to live ? ' ' 

" 'Do you want to be put quietly, completely, 
disgracefully, contemptibly and dishonorably out 
of existence while hundreds of your friends, rel- 
atives and acquaintances are one by one being 
awakened into a brand-new, inspiring, vastly 
more interesting and enjoyable life to last an 
indefinite length of time? 

" 'If you do not like to live and be in exist- 
ence, there will be little or no valuation on life 
and character, but if you really' do like to live 
and enjoy the thousand pleasures of a respect- 
able, honorable and commendable man, then there 
will be a valuation of a specific amount and the 
unit should be no less than one billion dollars. 
If you cannot measure value with dollars then es- 
timate the value of your life with diamonds, 
pearls, precious stones, or real estate. Some say 
they would not forfeit their character for all the 
wealth and possessions in the world, but that 
much valuation is too impractical to distribute 
over the pleasures and joys to be valued. 

" 'You do not have to be good, decent, honor- 
able, respectable and manly. Nobody on earth 

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can make you. Nobody off the earth will even 
concern himself about you. They are too busy 
receiving and welcoming thousands of good cit- 
izens. It would take a private detective for every 
man, woman, boy and girl in the city to even 
approach the possibility of making people be 
honorable. 

" 'It takes valuation on life, and a high one at 
that, to insure manly conduct and habits in both 
the thots of the mind and private living. You 
must like to live and like it very much or you will 
care very little for Life Above and beyond earth 
and the opinion, estimation, judgment and deci- 
sion of any Jury. 

" 'With the realization of the Higher Life and 
Superior Citizens magnetic electric in nature, and 
being added to in numbers at the rate of one hun- 
dred forty thousand per day from this earth alone 
— each in his invisible but substantial composition 
ten million times more positive in reality than 
the ground under your feet — and with the advent 
of the billion dollar valuation on life, you can 
combat temptation with the power and strength 
of a Hercules. 

" 'When the form of a beautiful girl crosses 
your path, who has dressed to invite destruction 
to her sex, you can put the question up to your- 
self — ''shall I barter, sacrifice, impair, jeopard- 
ize and place liable to condemnation a billion 
dollar life for an evening of carnal, sensual pleas- 
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ure or the lust habit. ' ' The treacherous influence 
of her handsomely gowned form, graceful move- 
ment and artful glances of solicitude fall on an 
expressionless, unresponsive countenance and 
mind. 

" 'A penny's worth of pleasure for a billion 
dollar life. A cheap piece of bait on the hook of 
an evil unit. An invitation to squander both 
money and vitality — rank losses which are in- 
comparably detrimental and injurious — besides 
the risk of losing a billion dollar life. 

" 'You have heard of fools, but what kind of a 
fool is he who barters a billion dollar life for a 
few hours of licentiousness. To really be a fool is 
very shameful, humiliating and contemptible. 

" 'Under the pressure or voltage of this high 
valuation on life and character, or deep concern 
about the welfare thereof, you can turn the 
search-light of self-examination on your thots, 
habits and interests with magnified brightness; 
and seeing a great deal of profanity and unclean- 
liness in your mind, intellect, thots and utter- 
ances — you begin to wonder whether a dirty en- 
gine, machine or instrument is as desirable as a 
clean one — and whether a dirty, filthy machine or 
motor works or gives as good service as a clean 
one, particularly on the inside. Then comes the 
question — if a certain Government has the pick 
of one hundred forty thousand machines per day — 
fifty-one million per year from one source alone — 

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would ft ey adeet the .ran ones in preference to 

Hie filthy, even tho many of the dirty ones had 
great powei strength and abil:77. 

Yon are not me :: irry-one million, please 
remember, but one of a crop of seventeen hundred 
million — or abou: as ngni&ant is the baeillns on 

fly's Coot, which is tz'.^^n hnndred times smaller 
than one little letter on the page of a newspaper. 

" 'Knowing that honorable, respectable, re- 
fined, cultured nri: and women will not coun- 
tenance :: tolerate profanity swearing cursing 
and indecent talk in their presence — one might 
be influenced to eonelode that this habif ~ ould 
be a most telling point against desirability. T: 
nothing :: the Eaet that it is absolutely in- 
iieati¥e of weakness in expression or argument, 
and shaHow-mindedness beeaose the words are 
superfluous. If one refrains from swearing in 
the presence of an honorable man or woman be- 
cause of respect : them, how can one respect 
him or herself if he or she continually curses and 
if :r her o^l. presence and within 
the mind, intellect and (hots Then again, n if 
not ugly, unbecoming, discourteous, impolite, ill- 
bred and unrefined ? 

M 'With the raising and elevation of the stand- 
ard of individual excellence which will soon take 
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place in your country — one might harbor con- 
cern about this objectionable habit. 

" 'If you give vent to heat, anger and temper 
in profanity or substitutes therefor, you are wast- 
ing very valuable vim, spirit and energy. You 
should direct all flurries of heat, anger and tem- 
per into your determination to realize further 
progress along some commendable ambition. Do 
not waste one of your best assets, namely, vim, 
grit and spirit, especially when your determina- 
tion and will-power is seldom strong as it should 
be. Heat, anger and temper is very good if you 
can control and utilize it. 

" 'Why should you seek simply to barely pass 
an examination. If your life is to be placed in 
the hands of an able Jury of Invisible Citizens 
who are watching you daily and hourly, why not 
study their reasonable pleasure and seek to at- 
tract or command their regard, respect and ad- 
miration so you will be greeted with gladness and 
honor. 

" 'How can Their natural wish and desire be 
other than to see the earth producing the greatest 
possible number of giants of ability and effi- 
ciency — $50,000 men, so to speak. The highest 
ideal or their vainest wish could be naught else 
than one hundred forty thousand clean, attractive 
agreeable giants per day. 

" 'You can do your share to bring about this 
ideal productive condition by forming and reli- 

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giously observing those habits which will result 
or culminate in gigantic ability, wealth of knoAvl- 
edge and cleanliness, and influence by example 
all boys and girls — and maybe some men and 
women — with whom you come into daily contact 
to be likewise. Then if the balance of your 
brothers and sisters in the human family, equal 
in age or older, should perchance place a similar 
self-valuation on each individual head, character 
and life and take an interest in the welfare of 
children, there might possibly be some improve- 
ment in the condition. 

" 'Who is in the best position, pray tell me, to 
better conditions on earth — the people in the clay 
who can talk to each other and influence by ex- 
ample, or the people just above the earth, who 
cannot by the stern law of Nature, talk or con- 
verse with the children of earth. 

" 'You want That Jury to give you the Billion 
Dollar Life — should you be willing to do a few 
hundred dollars' worth of good to please them 
while you are yet able ? 

a 'You patronize the Symphony orchestra to 
be entertained, inspired, benefited and pay 50 
cents for the privilege. You patronize the drama 
to learn good and vital lessons and pay 75 cents 
or $1 for the benefit received. You go to vari- 
ous lectures to be enlightened and to entertain- 
ments for diversion, recreation and you pay 50 
cents or a dollar for the benefit received. But 
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when you condescend to patronize the best friend 
of your Celestial Jury — the institution called 
Church — you drop a miserable nickel or dime in 
the collection basket. Ten cents for the privilege 
of mingling and associating with the future citi- 
zens of the Perpetual Government. Ten cents for 
a billion dollar life. It is laughable. You feel 
there may possibly be just a little room for im- 
provement in your character, morals, knowledge, 
education and you attend the weekly holiday 
School or Services to get this very valuable 
help — then pay five or ten cents for the benefit. 

" ' Maybe you do not consider the information 
imparted by Teacher or Pastor worth more than 
ten cents and maybe it isn 't — but if not, it is your 
good duty to help hire one who can teach prac- 
tical benefit and improvement. It should be a 
$50,000 business man at the front of your class or 
congregation — or a woman equally as able and 
practical — and there are some even now. There 
will be more as the earth grows older. 

" * Irrespective of the Teacher or Pastor, the 
great privilege of mingling and associating with 
refined, respectable, honorable, cultured, well- 
bred men, women and their families, is worth at 
least the price of a theater or entertainment 
ticket. Put the fifty cents or dollar in the bas- 
ket as it passes, and if the balance of the class or 
congregation perchance should be thus consider- 
ate, thotful, commendable and pay the reason- 

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able, fair obligation for benefit or help received — 
the treasurer (whose services are invariably do- 
nated) would marvel at the phenomenal display 
of honesty — the wonderful reality of being on 
the level with other good institutions where the 
payment for benefit received is obligatory. 

" 'If you pay your just and reasonable dues — 
as far as your responsibility for a good condi- 
tion can be fairly, justly and equitably measured, 
you are without blame, guilt or fault. You have 
done your reasonable share and can be justly 
required to do no more. 

" 'You patronize the Church, all her good 
causes and all other good institutions, movements 
and organizations in proportion to your financial, 
physical, mental ability, and you have done your 
reasonable duty and get credit for the whole so 
far as your responsibility can be justly appor- 
tioned. 

" 'Remember, if you give $1 to a cause, and one 
thousand others equally able as you to give that 
amount, have also been solicited, you have given 
a thousand dollars. If you give the kind and no- 
ble young woman 25 cents who is soliciting for 
the maintenance of an orphans' home, you have 
given $25 for every hundred people of whom she 
asks a contribution, if they are equally able to 
give that amount. If you purchase ten cents 
merchandise from a blind peddler, you have 
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given him $10 worth of business for every hun- 
dred people who pass him during the day. 

" 'If the ruler of a country makes a public ap- 
peal from every citizen to help restore a burned 
city, one wiped out by water or cyclone, and you 
respond with $1 — you have given thirty million 
dollars, if there are thirty million subjects equally 
able to give as you. 

" 'None should have the right to be more pa- 
triotic, loyal, thotful, sympathetic, considerate 
and commendable than another. Why should 
one be superior to another? If a brother or sister 
gives 10, 25 or 50 cents toward a good cause, you 
also give this amount and be equally commend- 
able and praiseworthy. Do not allow them to 
be your superior in thotfulness and nobility. Do 
not be inferior to anyone in these very important 
habits and traits which exert such a vital 
influence on your destiny. It is only desired 
of you to do your share in proportion to your 
ability. 

" 'When it is election time, if you do not vote — 
just so far as your responsibility goes, or can be 
justly measured, you have destroyed the entire 
government. And if you do not vote intelli- 
gently, with previous study of candidates and 
their platforms — so far as you know or can be 
held responsible, you have put crooks and crim- 
inals into office. 

" 'Of two hundred billion or more human char- 
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acters accepted to date from earth, fifty billion 
emanated from the clay-mold before the age of six 
years, or one-fourth of the total. Please let that 
soak in good and deep and do not lose sight of 
the fact. Fifty billion more of this total sepa- 
rated from the mold before the age of sixteen 
and only one in one hundred reached the desir- 
able age of 65. 

" 'In view of these alarming figures and real- 
ities, is it not of vital moment that every medical 
profession and institution be supported by you 
just in so far as you are able? Yet when the 
newspaper prints a call for small donations to 
"Save the Babies'' you do not even send five 
cents — whereas this much would be $50,000 if 
every man, woman and child in your City could 
only be educated in thotfulness, accommodation 
and sympathy to the phenomenal extent of just 
a nickel. 

" 'You may laugh,but your street car company 
realizes thirty-six million dollars per year just on 
nickels. 

" *E you are ashamed to have a nickel religion, 
and granting that 50 per cent of the people can- 
not give five cents — make it ten cents, which still 
gives those noble life-savers $50,000. A silver re- 
ligion is better than one of nickel. To date, this 
year, 980,000 out of one million people in your 
City and vicinity, have given not even five 
cents — much less ten, and some of them make 
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more than $100 per month — yes more than $5000 
per month. 

" '"What are you doing to make it possible for 
human beings to live in the clay-mold until they 
are at least 65 years of age. What chance has a 
child to be a $50,000 instrument of ability with 
health enough to live only six years, sixteen or to 
the average of thirty-three. With the 65 year 
age he or she has a reasonable opportunity. 

" 'If one kind of medical treating does not 
make strength of constitution and vitality, ex- 
periment with other practical methods, but get 
and help to give others the health, strength 
and those 65 years of physical life. 

" 'Reach the hundred forty thousand per day of 
men and women emanating from the clay-mold 
at 65 years of age or above. 

" 'The contributing of nickels to your local 
street car company is essential and practical to 
make up their receipts of thirty-six million dol- 
lars per year, but what about those sixty-six bil- 
lion nickels, or three and a third billion dollars in 
round figures, spent by the citizens of your na- 
tion unnecessarily and foolishly for detriments, 
hindrances and injurious poisons in the form of 
stimulants. (Thirty- two billion glasses of beer, 
eight billion glasses of whiskey, fourteen billion 
cigarettes, seven and a half billion cigars and 
four hundred thirty-five million pounds of chew- 
ing tobacco and snuff.) These figures can be 

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multiplied by ten to cover nickels and dimes 
spent otherwise for detriments and injurious in- 
dulgences per annum, and the total multiplied by 
ten or fifteen to make it world-wide. 

" ' Estimating sixty million of the population 
in your nation to be children, three and a third 
billion dollars would represent more than $100 or 
2000 nickels, each spent foolishly by adults multi- 
plied by 10 to approach the full amount. Don't 
be selfish with your nickels and dimes. Spend a 
few of them for knowledge, a few for health — lay 
by a few against the day of adversity and old 
age — and spend a few to save the physical life of 
those twelve million children that pass out of the 
clay mold per annum before six years of age, 
and the twelve more million that separate from the 
body before they reach sixteen. 

" 'Also a nickel or dime given to a salesgirl or 
waitress after she has served you, means $5 or 
$10 for every hundred people that she waits on, 
if others were equally thotful, considerate and 
sympathetic. At any rate by doing this you have 
done your share at least to relieve the pecuniary 
necessity of the young woman selling her shame 
and virtue.' " 



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" ' Stand in the presence of an eighteen inch 
geographical sphere of the earth, which will rep- 
resent about one-second distance of your ability 
to witness the earth as an Electric Magnetic In- 
dividual — and study the earth every day as if 
the next might be your last thereupon. 

" 'The highest, utmost and paramount purpose 
of this earth and the activity thereon, is the pro- 
duction of fine, desirable Human Instruments of 
Efficiency. All other interests, movements, organ- 
izations and institutions are secondary thereto 
and should only exist to make the first purpose 
successful. 

" 'Many men and women look upon their child- 
hood schoolhouse with a feeling of regret, re- 
morse and sorrow that he or she did not improve 
better the invaluable opportunity of acquiring 
the full benefit afforded by the teaching and 
learning to be had at the time. The earth can 
rebuke with a far greater power than any little 
schoolhouse. 

" 'When you were a boy of fifteen, you said to 
yourself "work hard and master that knowledge 
and ability necessary to earn your own living and 
when you are ten years older you will thank me 

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in the deepest and most sincere gratitude." 
And when you were 25 you felt almost like ca- 
ressing the picture of yourself at 15 for such 
sound, practical wisdom and forethot of the 
boy. 

" 'At 25 you ask yourself about the man of 35, 
65, 100 and 150. What position will the man of 
those ages be in to thank the prudence of the 
young man? 

" 'Place yourself in your future position and 
see if you are going to thank the young man in 
the clay, or heap loads of regret, remorse and 
sorrow upon his memory for such folly and ig- 
norance of failure to foresee the future man. 

" 'Some Magnetic People look back at earth 
with the deepest groans and feeling of regret and 
sorrow that they occupy a position of absolute 
impossibility to return and live the physical life 
over again. On the other hand some Citizens look 
back with great satisfaction and gratitude to 
their youth for the life which was led in the 
clay-mold and perhaps could have done no more 
for themselves and others than they did. While 
you are yet in the clay mold you have the privi- 
lege of returning to earth each day to improve 
self, your family and to do your tiny but all- 
important share to help humanity as a whole. 

" 'The whole world is not a stage as someone 
has declared nor is it supposed to be a vast harem 
as the majority of people are prone to argue — 
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but it is a garden and school — and a good one 
too — absolutely automatic and independent. You 
are born without any immediate Divine assistance, 
nourished and educated by other human beings 
or others and yourself jointly. 

" 'Parents require obedience and employers 
require ability, loyalty to rules and instructions 
or you are discharged and in a measure consid- 
ered undesirable by all other firms or schools. 
Employers as a rule are the most unsympathetic 
teachers and each customer holds a whip with 
which to compel you to be polite, courteous, re- 
spectful and accommodating, even if it be only 
acting. Be as commendable sincerely and hon- 
estly within your heart as you are obliged to 
appear to customers and you will be a desirable 
citizen for any government, whether earthly or 
Celestial. 

11 'You sell goods and you dislike, even hate 
and despise, the customer who wants concession 
or discount. Yet you straightway practice the 
habit of the "bargain fiends," and only purchase 
goods offered at a discount or concession or go 
direct to the wholesaler — which practice and 
habit, if pursued by everybody would demoral- 
ize all the business even to your own. Do you 
call this "consistency?" Are you in sympathy 
and harmony with the reasonable and just policy 
of "live and let live?" If you follow and prac- 
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apportioned, you have destroyed a condition on 
earth which should be the best. 

" 'Look at commerce as a play-school for a mo- 
ment and notice that the production, distribu- 
tion, sale and consumption of goods is only a 
means to grind out efficient workmen, characters 
and must go on for thousands of generations to 
come. Competition should prevent exorbitant 
profits, but should not produce bargain fiends. 
Purchase a good quality of goods from a respon- 
sible house and pay a reasonable price. If they 
charge an unreasonable profit, do not patronize 
them again. 

" 'Do you not see that with every demand for 
closer price, and every patronage of a competitor 
who gives the closer price, you cut dollars out 
of the wages of factory help and those young 
lady slaves in the distributing stores — thus com- 
pelling these future mothers of your nation to 
sell their honor, virtue and shame to meet the de- 
mand of their constitutions for food and pride 
for decent clothes. These assets are capable of 
being worth a billion dollars to them quite as 
much as your character is to you. 

" 'You perceive the truth dimly, but with each 
98 cent purchase you have taken one cent from 
the purse of a struggling factory girl and one 
cent from the salesgirl and each of these young 
ladies make or sell one hundred of these articles 
each day, or in a week this habit of bargain fiends 
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deprives each one of $6 which to them would 
look like fabulous wealth in addition to their 
present miserable $8 or $10 wages. 

" 'The souls of all these thousands upon thou- 
sands of daughters who could no longer stand 
the humiliation of poverty and resorted to pros- 
titution for something good to eat and wear, are 
housed up in the diamonds of the bargain fiends. 
No wonder those stones sparkle. 

" 'Beware that in giving $1 for the dollar arti- 
cle, you do not throw these "blood-pennies" into 
the coffers of the already swollen wallet of man- 
ufacturer or distributor and make it still more 
difficult for him to devise ways and means to 
squander it — because every dollar of profit you 
condescend to give is multiplied by one to five 
thousand employees if he can keep it. 

" 'When you have decided to observe and be 
loyal to the consistent policy of "live and let 
live ' ' you can then confine your patronage to such 
brands of goods and distributing stores who pay 
their help not only a living wage but a generous 
one. It is your duty to inquire about the wages 
paid at the factory where a certain desirable 
brand of goods is made, and the wages paid the 
girls where the goods are purchased. If you can 
find only one little store where the employees are 
paid liberal wages, you patronize just that little 
store. 

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" 'If other members of the human family 
should, by fancy or otherwise, see fit to be 
equally as thotful of the poorly paid workers of 
the nation, a change for the better would take 
place in the commercial end of earth's school. 
All factories and stores bow to the demand of the 
patrons and that demand is most keenly felt 
when you go elsewhere to purchase. You are 
only responsible for your share — your reasonable 
ability to help better this important condition on 
earth. 

" 'When a thing has been called to your atten- 
tion as being of vital moment, and you wish to 
serve that which is right instead of wrong, how 
can you do other than your share of the duty 
and how can you afford to fail with a billion dol- 
lar decision and life at stake. Remember how 
tiny you are anyway and how easy you could be 
rejected if you practiced habits displeasing to 
the Invisible Jury before whom you must stand 
trial. You had best do your share to please 
rather than your share to displease. Whatever is 
right, fair, commendable, just, equitable and 
proper should be law and religion as far as your 
little self is concerned. 

" 'On the other hand too much money should 
not be paid for certain classes of labor, because it 
is not worth more, and the boy, girl, man or 
woman should study and apply him or herself to 
advance to a superior and more lucrative profes- 
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sion or position. Girls should not as a rule be paid 
too much money, for they will not then wish to 
have a home and help rear a family, because they 
are getting more' pay as a single girl than they 
could realize as a wife. 

" ' Young men should advance to a position 
where they can hold out a wage of more than the 
girl is at present getting — as an attraction and 
inducement for her to advance to the more lucra- 
tive position of a wife. If she is getting too 
much money, he cannot hold out an attractive 
inducement for the girl. The average marriage- 
able young man cannot divide up more than $150 
per month at first. Of course with his advance- 
ment, the mate should likewise be advanced. Many 
congenial couples run things this way, or put the 
advancement into the mouths, on the bodies and 
feet of "little hopefuls." 

'" There are 9,000,000 unmarried ladies "of 
age" in your country alone and almost this many 
single adult men; about one-half of the adult pop- 
ulation. 

" '"What have you done to advance some in- 
dustrious, energetic, sensible little girl to the 
$75.00 or higher, position of a bride, so that she 
is relieved of the constant, aggressive, even in- 
sidious solicitation of the chicken-hawks, who use 
as their chief weapon the call of nature for the 
mate. Everyone of these little women, with 
rarely an exception, yearns in the lowest depths 

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of her heart for a home of her own with babies 
and a manly provider and protector for her and 
those children. 

" 'If a girl has had the misfortune to be un- 
usually comely and well-formed, she is singled out 
and if found to be the least bit susceptible to 
flattery, compliments and admiration — the same 
weight is brot to bear upon her by active mem- 
bers of the "adulterers' club" as all other organi- 
zations or associations use. If they want a cer- 
tain fine individual to join their ranks, they ar- 
range for several members to see him or her sepa- 
rately, individually and personally and at every 
advantageous opportunity endeavor to persuade 
and interest thru arguments and sociability — and 
the incessant appeal from so many friends and 
acquaintances at every turn of the road, makes 
the individual think that he or she is not a "good 
fellow" or accommodating, agreeable, compan- 
ionable, sociable, friendly or a "live one" — un- 
less he or she become a member and follow- their 
practices. 

" 'It would seem literally that "everybody is 
doing it" as they all have argued, and the com- 
bined persuasion of both boy and girl friends 
wins over the would-be modest, moral, clean and 
honorable girl or boy to indecency, or the kind 
of recreation and diversion which they say is the 
only live fun, pleasure and good time in exist- 
ence. 

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" 'The great success of the chicken-hawk, is 
due largely to his superior mental power. A 
boiler-maker develops powerful physical muscles 
by his daily work and could crush to pieces an or- 
dinary man. Likewise the young men of the na- 
tion are compelled to secure business from minds 
and intellects who fight hard to withhold it and 
competition makes their wits keen to locate the 
weak spots in the customer's human nature to 
conquer him. 

" 'The intellect may be compared to an octopus 
with many arms and each arm an ability to exert 
strong argument. This octopus becomes very 
muscular and powerful in a man who is obliged 
to extract business from other powerful intellects 
and in competition with other wits. (It is amus- 
ing to hear some men claim in self-defense at 
court that a woman induced him to go wrong. 
This admission of weakness is more contemptible 
than any sensual crime.) 

" 'It is so easy for such an intellect to conquer 
the very limited defending ability of the average 
female mind, so they give in with a very weak 
effort at protection and trust the male to keep 
the secret of their temporary common-law wed- 
ding, but none ever do. Their kind publish it 
quickly among friends, pointing out or boasting 
that Miss So-and-so finally "fell for him." Then 
of all the lovely names by which she is thereafter 
referred to — decent people have never heard the 

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equal. "Easy pickin'." "soft Annie." "kitten 
Mary. " 'can : beer." 'gasoline ride," "picture 
show Liz." "charity," "fluesie," "ragger." 
"rough neck," "damaged goods." "spoiled 
chicken," "tainted squab" — then later it be- 
comes "gold digger," "hooker." "street- 
walker. " "cafe operator," then those ugliest :: 
all names more politely spoken of as prostitute. 
And many of these girls actually think they are 
the best loved, best liked, most admired and most 
desired doll-babies of the city because the dudes 
all make a fuss over them — until they are kicked 
into the gutter, then they realize how deceiving 
and hypocritical some men can be. 

" 'Of what value is the friendship, compli- 
ments or admiration of one of these over-polite. 
over-attentive, over-entertaining, over-affection- 
ate, vicious actors. They destroy the reputation, 
character, honor, modesty and life of every girl 
who cultivates their aeqnaintai 

" 'The most delicate girl has the power to w! 
half a dozen of them all at once if she only had 
the self-respect, bravery and good-breeding to 
exercise this ability. When one o: tiiese vicious 
creatures sits beside a respectable girl in a street 
car and deliberately leans his leg over against 
hen to learn her attitude toward rlirting. if she 
shows the slightest resentment like offense or 
insult, especially by look or word, he will change 
his seat and perl. off the car at next cor- 

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ner like the coward and yellow cur that he is — 
for they fear the look of contempt and the fist of 
an honorable man like a criminal fears the 
law. 

" 'When girls learn the awful price of the ac- 
quaintance and friendship of flirts, sports, mash- 
ers, and ladies '-men, they will protect themselves 
by look, word and threat which is quite suffi- 
cient. Those cowards quiver with uncertainty if 
a girl whom they are approaching, appears to be 
respectable, and then if they are resented or 
" bawled out" for trying to flirt, they will walk 
or ride like a frightened thief to get away before 
an officer is started on their trail. 

" 'With the advent of high valuation by the 
feminine sex on modesty, reticence, delicacy, 
morality, honor, purity, virtue, shame, reserved- 
ness, ladyhood, respectableness, lovableness, sen- 
sibleness, strength of mind and intellect, good 
name, reputation, character, kisses, liberties, fa- 
miliarity, desirability as a wife and mother — 
many social evils will adjust themselves. The 
immodest and evil-exerting dress will disappear; 
the mashers all frightened to meekness; shallow 
minded frivolity, coquetry and flirting will be a 
thing of the past. Dogs will disappear and ba- 
bies take their places — and instead of the ambi- 
tion to have one hundred common-law husbands 
they will be worthy of arid get one good one. 

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" 'A manly, honorable, praiseworthy boy will 
live clean and keep his heel on the neck of nature, 
scorning to be weaker than his natural desires, 
inclination and tendencies, and strive to be wor- 
thy of the sacred privilege of claiming as a mate 
some respectable man and woman's daughter and 
give her as pure a soul, honor, character and 
reputation as he wishes to get. All young men, 
no matter how unclean and immoral their past, 
want a pure, virtuous and true girl as a wife — 
yet the majority of them persist in making or 
helping to make a great many girls undesirable 
wives and mothers. They make or help to make 
99 unacceptable by men as wives, then they look 
for a pure one to marry. 

" 'What has become of those good descriptive 
words among the male sex — " gentleman, "/'no- 
bility," "chivalry" and "gallantry." Thousands 
of actors, but few sincere, true, honest gentlemen 
inside their head, heart, mind and intellect. 

" 'Strange as it may seem, a girl likes to get a 
clean, pure, untainted manly man for a mate and 
father of her children. Her mother and father 
desire this for her at least. You mold yourself 
into the consensus of the conception formed by a 
group of good mothers and fathers as to the kind 
of young man you should be, and you will be a 
gentleman worthy of esteem, respect and the 
daughter of any of them. 
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" 'It is amusing', considering the number of 
prostitutes, public and common-law wives, to see 
a mother or father bitterly opposed to the mar- 
riage of their daughter to any one at any age. 
Many of these daughters then practice adultery 
in secret to satisfy nature and also keep peace 
and harmony at home. 

" 'If it is productive of the best kind of society, 
families, homes and offsprings for each man to 
have several wives — then why don't men have 
several of them, be open and above board about 
it. The people of governments where this is sanc- 
tioned, are far more honest, honorable and chaste 
than the most highly civilized people who have 
only one wife, or none whatever, but practice in 
secret the partial upkeep of one hundred wives — 
none of whom will he introduce to his relatives 
as a wife — and some of this kind of women have 
100 to 500 husbands and no children. 

" 'The better educted men and women of more 
recent generations, have found that a family with 
one father and one mother is productive of the 
best results in every way — domestic, social and 
the intellect of each member of the family, fa- 
ther, mother and children. 

" 'The wisest, best educated and highest minded 
men and women of the land make the laws for 
all. They endeavor to the best of their knowl- 
edge and conception of right, to make rules that 

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are best for everybody. Such laws should be the 
best that are possible for any country to have. 

" 'You are given an opportunity to observe 
and abide by laws while on earth. If you learn 
to respect and be loyal to them, you naturally 
will be a rule-observing and law-abiding citizen 
of the Higher Government. Your disregard, dis- 
respect, disloyalty, ignoring of the rules and laws 
in your earthly government can do nothing else 
but condemn you for desirability in any other 
government — be it earthly or Celestial. 

" 'If you do not understand or see why you 
should have one wife — one only — and her a woman 
of high moral character, then for the very simple 
reason that it is the law of your country, you 
should refrain from adultery and secret polyg- 
amy — even tho nature has given you the ability 
to have one hundred wives. 

" 'Study your make-up and you will almost 
look upon one wife as a dangerous asset to your 
habits. You be temperate in your pleasures and 
do the best thing for both in the preservation of 
vitality, strength of constitution, mind and intel- 
lect. Do you not know that there is some source 
of all your abilities? — Your ability to realize; 
ability to feel ambition; ability to exert energy; 
ability to experience gladness, joy and happiness ; 
ability to conceive, think, perceive and aspire; 
ability to possess alertness and dexterity of mind 
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and intellect, etc., etc. The basic fountain whence 
flow these capabilities is vitality and stamina. 

" 'Beware that she be not a " sapper of vital- 
ity" which is quite as injurious and detrimental 
as the physical and mental self-injury inflicted 
by the lust-fiend. It takes education, will-power, 
ability, tact and diplomacy to preserve harmony 
in a home. Proper and correct living, loyalty, 
thotfulness, respect and a goodly amount of com- 
mon sense and reasonableness will establish and 
maintain congenial relationship in any home, pre- 
vent millions of divorces per annum and elimi- 
nate the cause now brewing in tens of millions of 
homes. 

" ' There is nothing admirable or praiseworthy 
only that which is hard to perform, realize or ac- 
complish. The ability to earn a large salary is 
admirable because it is very difficult to do. Like- 
wise it is admirable and praiseworthy to be suc- 
cessful in maintaining harmony and happiness in 
a home because it is difficult and apparently with 
many, almost impossible. This is indicated and 
substantiated by the fact that millions of men and 
women in all degrees of advancement are incapa- 
ble and unsuccessful in establishing and main- 
taining this desirable and congenial relationship. 
If you do not cultivate and practice the ability 
and diplomacy of pleasant and congenial har- 
mony and agreeableness to those with whom you 
are obliged to be in daily contact — where are you 

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going to get the talent or faculty for use in the 
Superior or Higher Government. Yon had best 
learn how to be civil, companionable and agree- 
able in your private and personal life while on 
earth if you would be a desirable citizen for 
ceptance in the Higher Superior and Perpetual 
Realm. You get no credit for being courteous 
and agreeable where it is easy or compulsory in 
business — yon get credit for this only where it 
is hard and difficult and not compulse; 

" 'You practice thotfulness, considerateness 
and harmony in your home and your happy ex- 
ample may influence other couples and families 
to quit quarreling when it has come time to do 
so. Be only half as affectionate, fond, atten:: r 
polite, courteous to your wife as the love pirate 
is to his prospective victim, and you will have 
accomplished the secret of domestic harmony. 
"VThere there is discord, one or the other has in 
all probability transferred his heart tc some per- 
son or persons where it does not belong. 

" 'After you have found a girl who meets your 
conception of a desirable mate, chum, wife and 
mother to children — then you should be clear out 
of the market and not be interested in any other 
lady or ladies in the same capacity; divert 
or divide attention due her and your various pur- 
suits or ambitions. You most certainly desire 
and trust this of her. don't you? If other young 
ladies continue to attract interest from you in 

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the capacity that you feel you are missing some- 
thing, then you are not giving your wife the full 
amount of interest due her, or your ambitions — 
or there is some ambition lacking in your mind 
and you should locate one on which to divert your 
attention in troubles of this kind. 

"If you look upon a young lady and lust for 
her, you are then and there guilty of mental and 
intellectual indecency or self-abuse of character. 
You cannot be guilty of the offense unconsciously. 
If you permit or allow it to enter and form in 
your thots — you have, as far as your character is 
concerned, committed the crime. 

" 'Is it not a vain wish to desire that which 
saps vitality, particularly in view of the fact that 
with the tolerance or permission of the lust within 
the mind places liable to condemnation a char- 
acter which you value at a billion? Beware, boy, 
these thots are deadly poison. Your character is 
judged by what you would willingly do if you 
could. Not by the few acts committed by the 
brain and body. Many acts had a hundred pre- 
meditated or previous promptings from an evil 
mind. It would be far better with you for your 
mind to form and harbor a hundred premeditated 
promptings in support of each good act. Then 
your character is at all times above reproach 
even tho you never have opportunity to carry 
out the good motives or promptings within your 
mind. It is the desire, inclination and tendency 

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to violate social and governmental laws which 
you must eliminate, eradicate and destroy. 

" 'You may look upon many girls and women 
as cunning vitality sapping reptiles of the thick, 
short variety called asps — of a huge size. But 
then you may err in your judgment — so the best 
thots to use to combat the natural inclination to 
wish for the feminine body, is to estimate as well 
as you know how, what manner of mother or pos- 
sible mother is the young lady. What manner of 
wife is she or could she be. There are many prac- 
tical thots you can form and invent with the 
words "mother," "infants," "wife," "sister," 
"daughter," playing a prominent part in each 
one. 

" 'No matter how careless or bad she is or has 
been, an infant or child can love her with abso- 
lute sincerity if she is the mother of the baby 
and no matter how hard-hearted, with very few 
exceptions, she can reciprocate because an infant 
has power to melt the coldest and soften the hard- 
est of hearts. 

" 'The worst of women are not as indecent as 
the average man and boy is or has been. 

" 'If a young lady has a shallow valuation on 
her modesty, virtue and honor, what right or li- 
cense have you to influence her by glance or word 
to make the valuation still lower. 

" 'You have reached a proper stage of educa- 
tion when you seek to influence young ladies to 
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place a high valuation on their honor, purity, mod- 
esty, morality, name, reputation, virtue, shame, 
character, respectableness, etc. This is difficult 
to do in opposition to the usual prevalent evil 
exertion of women's dress and conduct. But again 
this also would not be admirable if it was not 
difficult to do. It is no harder however, than for 
an honorable man to learn and practice the in- 
fluence and habits of the chicken-hawk. 

" 'Your thots, whether honorable and manly 
or evil and flirtatious, are read at a glance by all 
young ladies, and very few pass a young man 
without seeking his eyes — especially if he is in 
an automobile. If you do not find it easy to think 
good, honorable, respectable and manly thots as 
you look upon young ladies, you had best compel 
yourself to do so and form the habit by sheer 
forced practice, so you will do it naturally and 
semi-consciously at all times. It will be a valua- 
ble reflection for you to ponder upon just before 
facing that Inevitable Jury. 

" 'Deliberately memorize this thot, "I sincerely 
trust you are innocent, virtuous, moral, respectable, 
loyal and true." Use it to counteract the natural 
emotions caused by the sight of pretty and well 
formed girls and women. You are then free of lust 
and have not pictured the girl as something to be 
shunned. 

" 'Is it not more commendable to circulate 
about each day, enhancing the value of human 
heads and character, than deteriorating and de- 

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predating the value thereof — by the natural exer- 
tion of your personal example and influence. 
This may apply to both boys and girls, but 
particularly the feminine sex. Which sex do 
you suppose gets chief credit for each succeeding 
generation of seventeen hundred million souls — 
each capable of a self -valuation of a billion and a 
$50,000 working ability. Who gave birth to you 
— your father ? The female sex can be none other 
than the favorites of the Supreme Government 
because they give the 50 billion instruments 
of efficiency that emanate from your earth each 
century — each one ten million times superior to 
a planet or sun. You influence them to be good in- 
stead of bad — if vou would be wise.' " 



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CHAPTER XIII 

" 'Have you ever noticed any particular good 
the liquor traffic is doing the human family? 

" * Counting each member as capable of reach- 
ing the $50,000 ability if unhampered by detri- 
ments, this traffic alone deprives human beings, 
the governments of earth and the Government Su- 
preme of hundreds upon hundreds of billions of 
dollars worth of ability, and makes undesirable 
citizens of millions who could otherwise have been 
acceptable for Higher Citizenship, and the thou- 
sand pleasures and joys of a set of unbenumbed 
human faculties. 

" 'This evil would not exist at all if you did 
not patronize the traffic or industry. If you do, 
you are wholly responsible for all the evil it 
does, even to the immensity thereof. If you do 
not patronize it — just so far as your responsi- 
bility can be justly measured — it does not exist 
on earth. 

" 'Likewise, the opium, cocaine and tobacco 
industries. If they are detrimental to the reali- 
zation of the $50,000 ability, then they are ob- 
jectionable and undesirable for use in the human 
family. 

" 'You are only responsible for your share of 
the patronage. If you do not purchase the stuff 

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the evil must necessarily vanish. If yon do not 
use these stimulants or allow them to be used by 
members of your family — then so far as your 
responsibility can be justly apportioned, the evil 
does not exist. 

" 'You see the immense harm of cheap, sensa- 
tional and obscene literature. Don't you patron- 
ize or allow your family to purchase this charac- 
ter of detriment, injury and hindrance. 

" 'The tremendous evil of burlesque shows 
would not exist if you did not patronize the ex- 
hibitions. You may be able to control yourself 
and combat the suggestive immoral influence of 
the costumes and jokes, but the young boys, girls, 
most men and women have no intention of com- 
bating the carnal sensual influence — and carry 
out the suggestions by committing adultery. 
If you patronize any of these evil exerting shows — 
then the entire evil, world-wide, can be charged 
against you. If you do not, then it is entirely 
out of existence so far as you can be fairly judged. 

" 'There would be no immoral cafes where 
young women solicit temporary common-law hus- 
bands for remuneration, if you did not patronize 
the places. 

' ' ' There would be no vulgar cabaret shows if you 
refrained from patronage. There would be no pub- 
lic dance-halls where operate the lust vultures 
and young ladies get spiritually murdered by the 
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hundreds and thousands — if you did not patron- 
ize the places. 

" 'There would be no immoral dives and re- 
sorts of any character if you did not patronize 
them. 

" 'There would be no white slave traffic if boys 
and men did not patronize the pitiful little vic- 
tims. 

" 'Do you go to any of these resorts or places 
to seek a wife — one you would not be ashamed 
to take into your circle of relatives and respect- 
able friends? If you are thinking of doing any- 
thing like this I could suggest a much better place 
to go. 

' ' ' There would be no indecent, suggestive jokes, 
acts and dances of any character in vaudeville if 
you refrained from applauding same. Do not en- 
dorse, countenance, approve and encourage the 
vulgar, uncultured, obscene, unrefined, unrespect- 
able acts, jokes and dances in vaudeville or other 
forms of entertainment by laughing at and ap- 
plauding same. If you do not applaud, it will 
disappear because entertainers are as sensitive 
to the expression of an audience as you are to 
your customers. 

" 'It is amusing to note the condition of intel- 
lects manifested by the applause of different in- 
dividuals in an audience. The refined and cul- 
tured people applaud the artist in respectable 
and admirable elocution, reading, music or jests 

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— while the carnal minded people in the audience 
give vociferous applause to the vulgar, indecent 
jokes, dances and poses suggestive of lust. 

" 'Be broad minded and have a sense of humor, 
but in so doing do not tolerate, encourage, en- 
dorse, approve and countenance that which is 
immoral. 

" 'You are not very big in this universe, being 
only one seventeen hundred millionth part of one 
crop of human beings from one little earth — so 
you cannot stand for very many evils piled up 
on the negative side of the scale when you are 
"weighed in the balance," especially if the evils 
are of a very great magnitude. Better to elim- 
inate the possibility of much negative weight in 
that final scale, and pile up credits in the way of 
great personal ability, cleanliness and the help- 
ing weight of a dozen or two good organizations, 
institutions, movements and a great many good, 
thoroughly established habits and numerous other 
good commendable things which you can find by 
looking for same. 

" 'When you "turn over a new leaf" and sup- 
plant bad habits with good ones, you are auto- 
matically forgiven by all Celestial Judges and 
Citizens and should be by all physical people. 

" 'If you make a resolution not to do a thing, 
how is it possible for you to do it without admit- 
ting by the very act that you are a weakling — 
fickle — that the power of habit is greater than 
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your strength of will-power, strength of purpose 
and strength of conviction, which stamps you as 
worthless. 

" 'Follow this rule in most instances when 
judging your daily acts and habits — "if every- 
body did as I, what would the net result be." 

" 'Live a commendable life day by day and do 
the thing, however small it may seem, which if 
every other member of the human family equally 
as able would do, would put the world, business 
and society in the best possible condition and 
keep it that way with constant improvement as 
each generation is born and reared — keeping in 
mind as the paramount purpose of life and busi- 
ness on earth, the production of the, largest pos- 
sible percentage of clean, honorable, respectable, 
agreeable giants of ability and efficiency. 

" 'As to personality, deportment and conduct — 
how better can one be every minute of the day 
than very respectful — making exceptions to none 
regardless of sex, color, creed or nationality and 
including self. If you actually possess self- 
respect-— that is, respect self equally as well as the 
most refined ladies and gentlemen — you approach 
as near perfection and faultlessness as it is pos- 
sible to be with regard to deportment. 

" 'Politeness and courtesy is the oil of human 
contact. If you would be liked, be likable and 
like others. If you would be respected, be re- 
spectable and respect others. If you would be 

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admired, be a successful hustler and compliment 
others for their praiseworthiness. 

" 'The time to be well principled, honorable 
and manly is every hour of the twenty-four you are 
conscious, semiconscious or asleep each day, re- 
gardless of place — be it office, shop, home or at 
recreation. 

" 'If you do not believe in the customs and 
teachings of the church where your people at- 
tend, go to one where the teaching appeals to you 
as being more practical and reasonable. The loss 
of members in the church of antiquated, super- 
stitious, ridiculous customs, teachings and beliefs 
will cause them to improve by substituting new, 
modern, practical customs, methods and knowl- 
edge. 

" 'Your failure to attend any church at all, 
puts against you the tremendous guilt of exter- 
minating from the world all the good done by 
this praiseworthy institution. These weekly hol- 
iday and evening schools have a combined seat- 
ing capacity of sixty million patrons, in your 
country alone and must be acknowledged as a 
commendable source or opportunity for the ac- 
quisition of learning, knowledge, enlightenment — 
and with many — inspiration, enthusiasm, espe- 
cially if the Teacher or Pastor is a $50,000 busi- 
ness man and gives you many good suggestions 
how to reach each stage of advancement to this 
admirable attainment of ability and earning 
power — along with goodly recommendations how 
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to distribute the earnings and be otherwise clean 
and commendable. 

" 'Of course if you are already a $50,000 man, 
you need not go to learn — you can go to teach. 
You are only responsible for your little head, 
body and limbs being in one of those sixty million 
seats on Sunday at least once. 

" 'You say you value yourself highly, but not 
enough to please the Jury which is to try you for 
continuation of life and the thousand pleasures 
worth a billion dollars. Every minute about one 
hundred others meet these very able and waiting 
Juries — one hundred forty thousand each day and 
no one knows what day you will be one of them. 
Never later than a few years and inevitable with 
all. None have failed to meet one of those Juries 
eventually. 

" 'Some people have said they wished they 
could start living all over again and retain all 
the knowledge and experience gained in the first 
life. Others have longed for, hunted and sought 
the fountain of youth. Here is the wish of both 
granted if they manifest an interest in and sym- 
pathy for the welfare of the human family indi- 
vidually and collectively while on earth. 

" 'It will be far easier for one hundred or more 
practical giants of the land to compile a brief 
outline of reasonable facts and revelations dis- 
covered and learned in the past century or two, 
-to be taught children of the following genera- 

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tions as a guide for the education of conscience — 
than one hundred such giants can do after they 
depart to the Distant View of the earth already 
out and away in a position of impossibility. A 
few practical warnings and valuations taught a 
child which appear plausible, reasonable and pos- 
sible when he or she gets older — will be absolute 
protection against temptations of all character. 

" 'Regardless of what ought to be done by 
a group of esteemed, well-liked, admired, re- 
spected, honored and highly successful business 
men — or regardless of what any other boy, girl, 
man or woman chooses to do — you study the hab- 
its, thirsts, pleasures and character of twenty or 
thirty of the most prominent, successful men and 
women of the world during the past few centu- 
ries, and let those who want to, waste time and 
energy wrestling with the lives of men and 
women who lived 25, 30 or 40 centuries ago, try- 
ing to make noble characters out of liars, mur- 
derers, thieves, adulterers and polygamists. The 
more modern men and women are the better ex- 
amples to pattern after in this day and age by 
1000%. 

" 'It is just as easy to deliberately place the 
pictures of admirable men and women on the 
walls of your home, as it is to deliberately sur- 
round yourself with the carnal, lewd and sen- 
sual influence of pictures of immoral women in 
nude poses or dressed to excite base passion. 
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" 'If you were a little one-horse steam engine, 
capable of self -growth, I would have you stand 
before and keep in mind the largest marine en- 
gine ever built as a pattern or example for you to 
duplicate. But being a little human being, I 
must necessarily direct you to another human be- 
ing or one of very large, successful development 
and attainment. You can get a very thorough 
insight into the details of construction of one 
gigantic instrument of ability and efficiency,- by 
purchasing a certain autobiography describing 
this giant. None before this gentleman have been 
so thotful of the young as to light the way to 
powerful, vigorous, honorable, admirable and 
manly attainment by recording, and publishing 
the methods he used and habits he pursued to 
reach a position of universal endorsement and 
admiration. This guide will then be a more prac- 
tical and modern reference book for high con- 
ception, example of manliness and strength — 
both from a standpoint of brevity and common 
sense — than the creed used by any religious or 
benevolent organization today anywhere on the 
face of the earth. 

" 'You keep striving to attain equality with 
this manly giant and you will not miss the 
$50,000 ability very far, the billion dollar accept- 
ability or the personal capability of experiencing 
all the thousand pleasures of a human heart and 
mind in the most pronounced, intense degree. 

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Let others do largely as they please, but you and 
your children pattern after this admirable and 
powerful man. If some traits appear as faults to 
you, overlook them. You may both be wrong. 
Do not condemn a billion dollar engine because 
of some small defect — simply improve on it in 
your own machine. 

" 'One hundred forty thousand giants of ability 
and examples of cleanliness like this gentleman will 
be quite satisfactory as a daily supply of auto- 
matic human instruments from your little 
earth. 

" 'A city of men, women, boys and girls like 
him could set a good example for any other city 
to follow. 

" 'A nation of fifty million men and women 
like him, and fifty million boys and girls growing 
up to equal him could set an example for any 
other nation to pattern after; and make any of 
them think twice before starting a fight — and 
instead of resorting to war to settle disputes they 
would abide by the decision of an international 
court like law-abiding and honorable citizens. 

'* 'If you strive hard to be equal to him and 
succeed fairly well in your daily efforts, you are 
entitled to the praise, compliments and admira- 
tion due a nation of this ideal character — so far 
as your responsibility can be equitably meas- 
ured — whether it ever reaches this admirable con- 
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dition or not. You at least have done your share 
to bring it up to this standard. 

" 'It would appear to me, with a valuation of 
one billion dollars on your life and character that 
you would take an interest in the plans and spe- 
cifications of your career. Go to an architect's 
office and see the preliminary work, attention, 
careful planning, study and written descriptions 
that are recorded and tested in many mental and 
physical ways — in advance of the actual work of 
construction and steps forward. Even on a 
$5000 or $50,000 job, great care and study is re- 
sorted to before the edifice is started and great 
attention is given to the foundation. These meth- 
ods are very much intensified on a million dollar 
job. 

" 'With yourself you have a billion dollar ed- 
ifice to build — in the nature of a mind, intellect, 
body and character. You had best drill deep. 
You know architects do this in order to rest the 
structure on solid rock. 

" 'Do not aspire for or seek fame. Everybody 
cannot be known by everybody else. Simply 
strive for equal ability and attainment to the 
best and make a friend of everybody you meet. 
This is the full extent of anybody's actual fame— 
the number of personal friends and acquaint- 
ances who like and respect you. 

" 'As to merit in your present position — if you 
are a better follower than another is a leader — 

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behold you are the better man of the two: be- 
cause if advanced to the superior position you 
would fill it better. If you are actually headed 
for the $50,000 earning ability and realizing the 
essential degree of progress each month or year, 
you are equal to any and all $50,000 mem so far 
as you are responsible and your possibilities ex- 
tend and are entitled to as much respect, praise 
and admiration — because with the attainment of 
the necessary age you shall have also reached the 
$50,000 ability.' M 



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SECTION 2 

Here my Magnetic Indian called a halt, and 
said that while there were many other things to 
report — these few, if memorized, would help some. 

I asked him if I should allow anybody to read 
the report and he suggested that I refrain from 
doing this for several years to see what effect, 
if any, it had on my life and habits. 

"If it acts," he advised, "as a daily inspira- 
tion and incentive to reach high attainment — a 
65 year physical age and $50,000 earning ability; 
causes a self-valuation on character and life of 
a billion dollars or more; makes you supplant a 
dozen bad habits with as many good ones; cre- 
ates a pronounced hunger for an office-building 
full of knowledge; influences you to take ad- 
vantage of every opportunity, however small, to 
better all conditions on earth; enables you to 
perceive Celestial Citizens many million times 
more clearly than buildings and inanimate ob- 
jects, and two or three times up to ten thousand 
times more positive in reality than physical men 
and women ; causes you to take an interest in the 
city, state and national governments, the rules 
and laws thereof, by way of practicing up desir- 
ability of citizenship for the Higher and Supe- 
rior Government which is trillions of years older, 

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trillions of times larger and more positive in reality 
than earth and her governments; causes yon to 
search for and find the thousand pleasures of a re- 
spectable man or woman; instills the sacred nobil- 
ity of self -reproduction and desire to rear a family 
and ability to preserve harmony therein; and 
other good commendable things too numerous to 
mention — then you can let someone else read and 
memorize this report of mine. If it fails to inter- 
est or influence anybody else to improve 'you 
should worry,' so long as it continually has the 
desired effect on your habits, character and 
career." 

"There should be some chance of the informa- 
tion interesting and influencing others, in view 
of the very evident fact that nearly everybody 
else your age or older, is more intelligent, clever 
and smarter than you — also many who are 
younger. ' ' 

"Notice all the beautiful homes and residences 
in your city and elsewhere. Each one represents 
a thrifty and successful man or woman. You do 
not own and maintain one. These people are 
smarter than you." 

"In the meantime, with your kind permission, 
I will return to the Eealm where my kind belong, 
get a job and start working on my way to a high 
position of responsibility and usefulness. If you 
want me at any time, concentrate your thots on 
me with undivided attention for a few moments 
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and I will receive the call and come to yon at the 
earliest possible opportunity. Darting around 
over face of earth and from planet to planet, sys- 
tem to system, in both the execution of duties, 
requirements and recreation — is much greater 
fun than aeroplaning or motoring and far safer. 
The experience and sensation has a tendency to 
excite hilarious elation, it can be done so easily 
and with unequaled dexterity. Being in a posi- 
tion to see, watch and be with people and read 
their thots from the absolute inconspicuous 
viewpoint of invisibility yet possessing greater 
strength, power, ingenuity, intelligence and abil- 
ity than the combined ability of three or four 
physical men or women — is a most interesting 
natural state or condition in which to be, worth 
more than any valuation that can be measured 
by money, precious stones or any earthly wealth." 

"A word to the shrewd is sufficient. You can 
do just as you please. You are in your own 
hands — and everybody like you. This is indi- 
cated and proven thousands of times the world 
over every day. You might as well wake up to 
the fact early in life so you can get a good start 
in your ' self making' and thereby do a better 
job of it." 

I asked him what became of his Celestial Ac- 
quaintance, the Giant with the strength of fifty 
million horse power of Flexible Concentrated 
Magnetic Electric Energy and with an age to His 

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credit of about twelve to fifteen billion years. 
"You don't think, I hope, that He has been wait- 
ing for me one or two seconds away from earth 
during these eight weeks that I have been follow- 
ing you around delivering this report. A Citizen 
with the ability, ingenuity and energy of that 
Individual, you can rest assured has something 
to do and a great many things. If His valuation 
of time could be measured with dollars, figure 
about $288,000 per second. He is a recognized 
authority on seeds of all kinds and can be found 
out among the new planets at most any time. 
TVhen He plants a seed it means millions of trees, 
flowers, ears of corn and heads of wheat in a few 
short years of time. It is never necessary for 
Him to plant seeds on a planet the second time." 

"But don't bother about Him — He is old 
enough to take care of Himself. You will meet 
Him in due season and thousands of Others like 
Him. If you do not see how it can be possible 
you will also learn that in due season and get 
used to it like fifty-eight hundred others of your 
brothers and sisters are doing each succeeding 
hour." 

"Do you mean to infer," I asked him, "that 
his time is worth a little over a billion dollars per 
hour, or just about the time spent with you out 
there near earth?" 

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"Yes," he replied, "and as a consequence you 
should value these suggestions at a billion. Also 
the printed report may be compared to one of his 
seeds. A record is capable of duplication even to 
seventeen hundred million — multiplied by a million 
generations — and each record will wait patiently 
for the reader to study and grasp the meaning." 

"Enuf" 



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